Oost-Indische kers by Julie de Graag Gallery Wall Nico Tracey - Graphic Interventions Santhosh CH's layered textures and

Santhosh CH's layered textures and expressive mark-making are rendered with sharpness and subtlety on premium matte fine art paper

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one of the most highly regarded Nanga (literati) painters of the Edo period

Two birds rest on a bare branch

Oost-Indische kers by Julie de Graag Gallery Wall Nico Tracey - Graphic Interventions Santhosh CH's layered textures andOost Indische kers (Nasturtium) shows Julie de Graag working at the intersection of close botanical study and pure graphic design. The round, shield like leaves are arranged with deliberate asymmetry, their overlapping forms creating a layered rhythm across the picture plane. Engraved on end grain wood, the lines achieve a fineness rarely possible in the medium stems, veins, and petal edges rendered with the control of an illustrator and the boldness