Celia Ciona

Celia Ciona first learnt relief printing a few years ago in Lyon (France). Now based in Montreal, she works on illustration, linocut, and is currently learning tattooing. Mainly self-taught, she aims to develop a personal universe based on a love for tales, the colour black, old images, and witchcraft. With a Master’s degree in History of Art, Celia has a perspective and a multitude of tools for analysing images, which has made her curiosity for symbols grow.

A few years after completing her Masters, she dropped theory for practicing again, and let creativity occupy a new place. To reconnect with drawing, Celia learnt linocut. She tells us; “Thanks to the engraving practice, I drew seriously again. I fell in love with engraving, because it requires observation, patience, and research, essential to achieve fineness and precision.”

“What inspires me and what I offer takes root in the haven of my apartment, readings, discussions and listening, my walks in nature, my childhood influences (from which my first hopes of magic certainly). Regarding natural subjects, I am lucky to have grown up in a kind of humility mixed with curiosity about the surrounding nature, which allows me today to find inexhaustible creative subjects.”

Celia tackled the subject of the deformation of the body, with Scoliosis, in 2020, for the exhibition on the theme: “Deux” (Two, in english) at the In8 workshop, in Lyon. “It was a cathartic work and I really plan to work on the subject of body’s feelings, and trauma, deep emotions and ambiances such as anxiety,” says the printmaker.

With many ideas and little time, Celia, therefore, has several (very long-term) projects on the go, one of which is working with organic materials, in particular animal skin, as a printing matrix.

Today, everything she draws is either a future tattoo or a potential new print. Celia’s latest project is a wheel of the year, based on the sabbaths, witches’ celebrations that punctuate our years by following the seasons, the solstices, and the equinoxes.

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