Urban distress 3

Katinka Kvale's work consists of layers of diverse printed techniques, including mono/series print, photos, and textiles. She specializes in mixed media collage, employing glue and scissors to create intricate compositions. She uses double exposures of digital and analogue to enhance the depth and complexity of her pieces. With a homemade lightbox and a preference for natural light on sunny days, Kvale meticulously crafts each layer to ensure transparency and texture recognition. The inclusion of 'handprints' in her work evokes a sense of nostalgia for a pre-industrial/pre-technological era, highlighting the intimate connection people once had with handicraft processes such as weaving, knitting, ceramics, woodworking, and metalworking.

Katinka Kvale

Katinka Mars Kvale was born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and moved to Norway as a young adult. She lives in Asker near Oslo. Studying the skill of weaving, design and later ceramics she combines those crafts to construct tactile items with structure and texture. Both sculpture and domestic items. After many years of teaching and working in her own studio she now concentrates on printmaking and experimentally layering hand prints with photography. Taking the love for structure, texture and botanics further into a now two-dimensional discipline.