Printmaker Inga
Darguzyte’s prints are not only about representing the geological
and biological force of landscape, but also about re - enacting
them manually through the gouging out of the lino, through her own
hand and arm movement, and the building up of textured line through
her use of the intaglio process. These small and intense prints
create not so much a record of reality, but rather a feeling of
intensity and force that can be equated with the larger dynamics of
the natural world.
There is a strident simplicity to her selection and presentation of
her subject matter and an aesthetic economy in her subtle use of
colour. Yet she is not afraid of detail and complexity within each
individual drawing.
Within her basic concerns of landscape and natural forms Inga
Darguzyte is always willing to be experimental and to ring the
changes in the ways in which she brings her vision to the
paper.
Su
Grierson, Scotland,
2007
Artist, President of the Scottish Artists Union between 2003-2006,
currently Chair of Perthshire Visual Arts Forum