Marina Terauds
Marina Arts
About
Art by Marina Terauds.Printmaking.Painting. I am an artist from Latvia(Europe).I studied graphic art in Latvian Academy of Arts and art pedagogy in Latvian University in Riga.After completing of my education some years I worked as a teatcher of arts/art history and as an artist-animator at the film studio "RIJA" in Riga.Now I live and work as a full-time artist in Michigan ,USA. My passion is etching and mezzotint.I make prints,illustrations,ex libris(book plates)and miniatures in different graphic techniques. I work as a painter in different medias also but my favourite painting technique is watercolour. Here you can see my mezzotint/drypoint "The World of Birds" 19x23 2000 Please visit my galleries(through "gallery 1" - above) to see more etchings,mezzotints,watercolors and drawings. "Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual." - Andrie Tarkovsky A little bit more about my favorite graphic techniques: Line is essential to traditional etching I draw with metal tool on the metalplate covered with hard ground - an acidresistant covering and expose the metal.Then the etched line(my drawing) is incised by acid. And printing is the last step in transferring the image from plate to paper. Mezzotint is another method for creating drawing on the metal plate.The mezzotint ground is a kind of scratch tone caused by scratching the surface of the plate with a tool called a rocker.This tool has many sharp-pointed metal teeth set on a curved plane.The tool is rocked over the plate by hand ,scratching the surface and raising a burr.When the surface of the plate has been roughened by the teeth of the rocker,I draw on it by scraping,flattening and polishing the plate.The final print resembles a sharcoal drawing - tonal areas are soft and gray, and edges of shapes are fuzzy. Themes of my works are FANTASY and NATURE. May be it is FANTASY about NATURE or NATURE of FANTASY. I love FANTASY and I love NATURE in all displays - trees,flowers,animals,birds,insects ...and people. 19x23 1999 SOME OF MY EXHIBITIONS Solo shows: 1993 Silute,Lithuania. 1994-95 Gallery "Sasel-Haus",Gamburg,Germany. 1995 Exhibition Palace,Klaipeda,Lithuania. 1995 Gallery "Lapa",Riga,Latvia. 1995 Silute,Lithuania. 1996 Library of Arts,Klaipeda,Lithuania. 1999 Gallery of Graphic Arts ,Tokyo,Japan. 1999 Gallery"Allegheny",Riga,Latvia. 2001 Gallery Art Studio One ,Mason,MI, USA. 2002 Left Bank Gallery, Flint, MI, USA. 2002 Gallery Trillium, Lansing, MI USA. Principal group exhibitions: 1987,1989,1991,1993,1995,1997,1999 Baltic Print Biennale in Riga,Latvia. 1991 International Biennale of graphic Art in Varna,Bulgary. 1990,1992,1998 International Biennale of Graphic Art in Kaliningrad,Russia. 1991 The 2nd Contemporary Art Exhibition in St.Gheorghe ,Rumania. 1993 International Exhibition of Small Graphic Art KONTAKT in Torun,Poland. 1994,1997 International Triennale of Graphic Art in Bitola,Macedonia. 1995,1997 International Biennale of Miniature in Ostrow Wielkopolski,Poland. 1995 International Biennale of of Female Art in Stockholm,Sweden. 1995,1997,1999 International Biennale of Ex Libris in Sint-Niklaas,Belgium. 1995 International Exhibition of Small graphic Art in Taipei,Taiwan. 1995 International Exhibition The World of Ex Libris in Belgrade,Yugoslavia. 1995,1997 International Independent Exhibition of Prints in Kanagawa,Japan. 1996,2000 International Engraving Biennale in Caixa Ourense ,Spain. 1996 International Ex Libris Congress and Exhibition in Chrudium,Czehia. 1996 International Exhibition of Ex libris in La Ville De Meiz,France. 1996 - International Biennale of Ex libris in Warsaw ,Poland. 1997 International Exhibition of Ex libris in La Ville De Bayeux,France. 1997 International Exhibition of Ex Libris in Roccalbegna,Italy. 1997 The 1st International Mini-Print Biennale in Cluj,Romania. 1998 International Ex libris Congress in St.Petersburg,Russia. 1998 International Biennale of Ex Libris in Malbork,Poland. 1999 International Festival of Graphic Art in Cluj-Napoca,Romania. 1999 International Exhibition of Ex Libris in Gliwice,Poland. 2000 International Exhibition of Ex Libris in di Zola Predosa,Italy. 2000 Lilla Europa Biennale of Smallscale Painting and Printmaking, Hallsberg,Sweden. 2000 Chopin I Jego Muzyka, VIII International Ex Libris Exhibition, Ostrow Wielkopolski,Poland. 2000 Il Cielo in una Stanza , Zola Predosa, Italy. 2000 International Ex libris Congress in Boston, USA. 2000 - Print Art Fair , Atlanta, GA, USA. 2001 The Print , The Exhibition of Michigan Printmakers, Ann Arbor, MI,USA 2001 Celebrating the Figure , Exhibition in Lansing Art Gallery, Lansing, MI, USA. 2001 24th Harper College National Exhibition, Palatine, IL, USA. 2001 International ex libris Exhibition in Siauliai, Lithuania. 2001 39th Annual Christian Art Show, Lansing, MI, USA. 2001 Ann Arbor(Audree Levy s Invitational) Spring Art Fair, USA. 2001 Odyssey 2001, Art Fair, Lansing, MI, USA. 2001 IX International Biennale of Miniature, Ostrow Wielkopolski, Poland. 2001 Bay Harbor Art Fair, USA. 2001 International Ex Libris Biennale in Sint-Niklaas, Belgium. 2001 Reflections on Paper. An Exhibition of Contemporary Printmakers. Jordan River Art Center. East Jordan , MI, USA. 2001 V Biennale Europea Dell incisione. I frutti di Bacco , Italy. 2001 International Festival of Graphic Art in Hallsberg/Orebro, Sweden. 2001 Holiday Art Fair, Farmington Hills, MI, USA. 2001 Ann Arbor(Audree Levy s Invitational) Winter Art Fair, USA. 2002 Ann Arbor (Audree Levy s Invitational) Spring Art Fair,USA. 2002 V graphic Art Biennale, Dry Point, Uzice, Jugoslavia. 2002 15th Annual National Women s Art Exhibition, Farmington Hills, Mi, USA. Bibliography : Dr.Erik Skovenborg aeskulapstaven som laegesymbol - Historie illustreret med exlibris .Saertryk af Dansk Medicinhistorisk arbog 2000. Encyclopaedia Bio-Bibliographical of the Art of the Contemporary Ex-Libris . Editorial Franciskana-4701 Braga Codex Portugal-1999. Ex libris .Gramatzimju makslinieki Latvija DIAPRO,Riga,Latvia,1996. Ex Libris.Latviesu gramatzimes simtgade . DIAPRO, Riga,Latvija,1999. Awards: Medal of The 3rd Biennale of Ex libris in Grudziadz,Poland-1993. The 3rd prize of International Exhibition "Daina,Muzika,Sokis"in Vilnius,Lithuania-1994. The 1st prize of International exhibition of Small Graphic Art in Beius ,Romania-1994. The 1st prize of International Exhibition of Ex libris"Ciurlionis-120"in Vilnius,Lithuania-1996. Medal of The 3rd Biennale of Ex libris in Warsaw, Poland-1996.