Artworks

Sonia Martin RE Elected ARE 2017, RE 2023

Mountain View

etching & aquatint, edition of 35

image size 20 x 25cm

paper size 30 x 42cm

£160 unframed

Sonia’s work features intriguing figures, each a product of the artist’s imagination. They often appear to be searching for their place in the world. This work Mountain View suggests a figure reflecting on her past experiences and her future hopes.

Sonia explains “the beginning of an etching can be a word or phrase, something seen or remembered which is then developed through drawings and sketches from life into an imaginary composition.”

Sonia creates her prints mainly in etching or monotype. The work she has produced for Print Collectors Club was made using the traditional method of etching and aquatint on copper plate.

She uses her drawings as a guide for transferring the image directly onto the etching plate. The plate is covered in a waxy substance known as ‘ground’ which is removed by each line drawn into it, exposing the metal plate underneath. This is then immersed in a solution of ferric chloride which etches into the drawn line. The next stage uses aquatint which creates areas of tone in the image. Finally, ink is added to the plate, and this ink sits in the etched areas. When then passed through the etching press, the image is transferred onto the paper.

Sonia Martin lives in London UK and studied Fine Art at City & Guilds and a Masters in printmaking at Camberwell College of Art.

Sonia has been awarded artist residencies in India, Ireland, Bolivia, Spain and Mexico and she is a recipient of a Pollock-Krasner award for her prints. She has exhibited widely, including at the Royal Academy and the London Original Print Fair. Her work is represented in public and private collections in the UK and internationally.