Sasa Markinkov

‘Black Birds Gathering’

Biography 1967-71 BA Hons Fine Art. Leeds University 1971-72 PGCE London University Institute of Education 1975-76 Advanced Diploma in Printmaking. Central School of Art and Design Collections Leeds University, London University Institute of Education, National Westminster Bank, Cabo Frio Brazil, Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje, Clare College Cambridge, The London Hospital, Winchester Hospital, Ashmolean Museum, British Rail Freight, Bank of China, Department of Transport, Galerija Graficki Kolektiv and Quadra Beograd, London Borough of Richmond Upon Thames, Arts Council UK, Guanlan China, King’s College London, Polish Forestry Commission, Grafikverstan Godsmagasinet Sweden, Fitzwilliam Museum Artist’s statement My preferred method of making images is through relief printmaking. I like exploring this expressive language in a dialogue between positive and negative, representation and abstraction, control and accident. I use lino, birch plywood, lemon wood, Japanese and European papers and often hand burnish the prints. I search for subjects with a camera or draw and freeze a landscape in time, sometimes using nature symbolically or show a city in construction or destruction. I continue the journey in the making of the print. Teaching ideas, and a wide variety of skills, have been an important and absorbing part of my creative life.