Andreas Eriksson | Skimmer

Andreas Eriksson’s etching Skimmer bears his painterly signature of working on the border between figuration and abstraction.

Like in his paintings, Eriksson’s choice of colours radiates intention. Nevertheless, the etching’s colour palette is surprising, ranging from soft, muted pastel shades to strikingly bright, almost neon-like tones. The patchwork of colour fields can be read as geological forms, patches of grass, bushes, or trees; the overall composition evokes a sense of the landscape. 

For Skimmer, Andreas Eriksson has further developed a sandblasting drypoint technique, which he had first experimented with for his print Risberg, 2022. The final etching is composed from the five individually sandblasted plates printed on top of one another, so that the different shapes meet and overlap.