Lithuanian born Inga Eicaite is a contemporary printmaker who through an abstract graphic approach explores the dynamic intersection between science and nature. Now based in London, Inga is a keyholder at East London Printmakers (ELP) where she works across several printmaking combinations: mokuhanga – traditional Japanese water based woodblock printing, intaglio, and relief. She creates works in a primarily monochromatic palette; a deliberate choice that allows her to emphasise the contrast between light and shadow, form and void. Emphasis is also placed on paper and its qualities, with Inga using conservational washi (Japanese paper) and hanji (Korean) papers which help to bring subtlety to her work.
Inga’s work takes inspiration from Japanese minimalism, Brutalistic architecture, Bauhaus, Constructivism, Nasa, and sci-fi books. Some of her collections that illustrate this wide breadth of influences include her ongoing series Balance & Cosmos; a black and white minimal intaglio collection, and her Study on Ikari Shinji; a mixed media, more colourful approach towards the philosophy behind the Evangelion anime series.
Each of Inga’s pieces begins after she gets captured by an idea, certain composition, or colour usage. She then sits with it for sometime until she is happy with the separate elements which she will then try to combine together. “Maybe that’s why my works look rather scattered, not too well balanced,” says the printmaker. Inga has also studied quite a few ukiyo-e prints, describing them as “a treasure chest of beauty”.
This year, Inga hopes to move onto working on more larger sculptural pieces and make better use of materials by incorporating a play of darkness and light as behavioural elements.
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