Gaëlle Garrocq

Inspired by flora and fauna, Gaëlle Garrocq is a linocut printmaker who loves playing with imagery of organic elements, birds and insects in order to question our relationship to nature. Using mainly black oil-based relief ink, she works on various small series of prints.

Gaëlle studied Fine Arts and Art History, and later Literature, leading her to a job working for a small newspaper in France where she wrote articles about artists and craftsmen, and created illustrations on current events. As she become more artistically driven, Gaëlle shared her love for art by accompanying people of various ages through different artistic practices. 3 years ago, she started conducting linocut workshops, and the medium became her speciality.

Taking influence from the natural world, music of the 60s and 70s, and literature, Gaëlle’s creative process involves a mixture of many different factors. “My own relationship with nature, which is sometime vertiginous, oscillating between fear, phobia and complete fascination, goes into my illustrations” explains the artist. With other passions for myths and symbols and the art of tattooing, Gaëlle reinterprets and plays with her influences, blending both worlds through the medium of linocut.

Based in Vevey, a lakeside town on Lake Geneva, her studio is part of a bigger space dedicated to bookbinding, a small world she feels very inspired to work in. “Love of paper is one of the obvious links between bookbinding and printmaking. Paper can sublime a print but it can also be the determining element of the creation, as you sometimes want to honour the material” states Gaëlle. She has a particular love for handmade, plant-based paper, and appreciates the opportunity to meet paper makers. This handmade and environmentally friendly approach gives another dimension to the material, and Gaëlle now practices making recycled paper and tea dyed paper herself. “The texture, the smell and touch of paper is something I truly enjoy, as much as the linoleum, ink and linocut tools” she concludes.

www.gaellegarrocq.com
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