Line Klinke Solina, founder of Line Solina Studio, is a Danish linocut printmaker, running her creative practice as a part-time registered business while juggling motherhood with two little ones. Having originally studied music, Line is a self-taught printmaker. Although visual expression through drawing and painting has always been a big part of her life, Line only came to printmaking last year in the early spring of 2021; “I’m still on a journey to fully claiming my identity as an artist. I would definitely consider myself emerging! This past year has been one steep and beautiful learning curve: getting comfortable with printmaking techniques and slowly finding my artistic voice, and then throwing myself into learning the skills of running a business.”
Her practice as an artist is heavily intertwined with her life as a mother; “they affect each other on all levels and both would look very different without the other”. The need as well as the courage to share her art with the world came with the birth of Line’s daughter in 2019. “She came into this world with such almost tangible creative energy, so much fire, and all through my pregnancy with her it felt like that creativity – which somehow belonged to her as well as me – had to find an outlet,” says the printmaker. Previously, Line had been a stay-at-home mother for three years with her son. Feeling the burn out, she needed to rekindle that creative spark inside of herself before welcoming another baby. Thus, Line began partaking in courses in the intersection of art, spirituality, and self development, and found a lot of joy and courage in the process. She describes; “During the first month of my daughter’s life, all I did was paint. And somehow, that spark managed to stay with me in the following years while being totally engulfed in childcare once more, finally resulting in falling in love with linocut printmaking last year.”
The inspiration for her artworks comes from her ideal everyday life: living slowly, being in nature, and seeing the beauty in the mundane. As of now, there are a lot of women and children depicted in Line’s prints, reflecting the stage she is at in life.
“I guess you could easily criticise my art for being nostalgic or overly idyllic, even anti-feminist, but I don’t see it that way. For me it’s important to express the beauty, peace and calm of life in a world that can be so many other things. That womb-like feeling of drawing your family close, caring for your home, nourishing and stewarding your immediate surroundings, be they human or non-human – that’s what I feel a need to express through my art.”
Perhaps this is why she is so drawn to linocut as a medium: the analogue, tactile nature of the process lends itself well to working with these themes.
Line is particularly interested in the process of creating, and what it means to us as humans and artists to live a creative life. She also questions how to make this creative nourishment accessible to people who don’t necessarily see themselves as “creative” or “artists”. This has been a recurring theme throughout Line’s career; first as a singer and a musician, and today as a printmaker, and one which she hopes to continue to explore. For now, her dearest ambition is to get a dedicated studio space; “I’ve definitely outgrown my small living room corner, which is where I’ve been working from so far”.
@linesolinastudio
www.linesolina.com
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