Sea Nest Art Studio

After discovering printmaking in March 2021, Aga Kubish of Sea Nest Art Studio immediately fell in love with the process of linocut. The technique mixes carving, design, drawing, and graphic design; . Based in North Somerset, Aga dedicates herself to botanical, nautical, and architectonic illustrations. Over the past few years she has developed a unique and extremely high detailed recognisable style, specialising in traditional ink drawings, colourful raster illustrations made on her iPad and Procreate, and vector graphics drawn directly by iPad and Adobe Illustrator Draw. She states; “I was always focused on textures and details… tiny lines, dots and very detailed textures, those are the most important elements of my style”. However, to show all this intricate detail through lino printing, Aga had to change the scale of her artworks, and these large-scale works have now become her signature.

“Every new project is a new adventure, new challenge, new skills to learn,” says the printmaker. Giant Octopus was the first large scale linocut Aga worked on and took 11 days worth of carving. The piece was made without a background, with Aga instead focusing on the body, shades, and engraved lines. The piece has been designed like a Japanese brush painting, with Aga implementing spontaneous lines, showing the Octopus’ flow in open space.

The second of Aga’s large lino prints is The City of Birds; made as a fantasy illustration for a story which was born in her mind last year. This print is very architectural, and demanding in lines and forms, with no place for spontaneous cuts except from the clouds in the sky. The carving of this work took an even longer 23 days!

“After completing this work, I started thinking about something with a lot of shades, about design with no outlines and contours… about something very botanical and complex…” describes Aga. This is how the idea of her next print, Ferns, was born. Her third large lino print is entirely composed of light and shadow. After applying different thicknesses of lines, Aga achieved the impression of depth, with lighter leaves in the foreground, and darker ones in the background.

Her latest large linocut is dedicated to the art of Claude Monet; “His Water Lilies were a great inspiration, especially for their style of painting, very impressive, soft and delicate”. But how could Aga translate this into the language of lino printing? Once again, she focused on light and texture, with a goal to show the flow of leaves, the contrast of white lilies, and the shadows of water grass.

Aga is currently working on The Forest, another large linocut print inspired by Exmoor National Park which will focus on the diversity of textures and shades. Keep your eyes peeled for the results!

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