Relief Award 2025

Eline Brontsema

Stadtbad Spandau Nord

Jackson's Art Prize 2025
Woodcut
Paper
71.2 x 47.9 cm

“In 2020, I graduated with a series of reduction woodcuts, portraying an old farm close to my house in Groningen, the Netherlands. I came into touch with woodcut at the Art Academy. I went there to become a painter, and I still love painting, but fell in love with woodcut and just haven’t stopped making woodcuts since. For my prints, I make use of the reduction technique. It’s also known as the ‘suicide method’: the print is created from a single wooden plate for all the different colors. The wooden plate is systematically destroyed and a mistake in cutting can spoil a whole edition of prints. I like to create detailed woodcuts of the world around me. Currently I am working on a project about Berlin Public Pools. I make use of many different color layers, which can give the work painterly qualities. Composition is very important to me. The rhythm of shapes, color harmony and the play of light and shadow are important for the atmosphere of a place I want to depict.”