Linda Adato
Color etchings: urban landscape and other imagery.
Brooklyn New York

My etchings depict diverse urban, architectural and other images: ancient ruins, New York City skylines, buildings and bridges and from my own backyard.

I work in the printmaking technique of intaglio in which the areas etched are below the surface of the plate. I am attracted to the dramatic interplay of light and shadow which can be achieved in the
etching process.

I start the image abstractly from the forms observed. The intaglio technique of line, aquatint and soft ground lend themselves well to finding the lights and rich darks in these images. The colors are an integral aspect of the etching.  In the journey from drawing to final print, I do not so much execute the initial idea as I develop it in the course of the intaglio process. I take a proof at each stage to see where I've gone and what can be.