Andreas Eriksson | Cave

A terrain appears in muted, earthy shades, characteristic of the artist’s portrayal of nature.

Andreas Eriksson lives in the Swedish countryside in an area characterised by wild and diverse landscapes. He has a genuine affinity to the nature in which he lives, and his works arise from this intimate connection – nature forms the conditions and provides the material for Eriksson’s work.

In the etching titled Cave, the flickering graininess evokes a certain physicality and heightens the ambiguity about whether the composition depicts nature on a micro or macro scale. The composition is not necessarily a representation of a specific place but evokes a feeling of nature. As in his paintings, shaded fields of colour meet and coalesce. Eriksson works with textures printed from multiple plates to bring forth a play between ambiguous light and dark forms in the final print.

There is an element of discovery with each new print. For this print, three copper plates were sandblasted and overlaid in the print so that the marks interact in unexpected and unpredictable ways. This technique offers many opportunities for surprise.

Andreas Eriksson