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Laurent Schkolnyk
Born 1953
Laurent Schkolnyk was born in Paris and now lives in Nantes, where he once
practiced medicine in addition to working in the arts. He attended both art
and medical school in Paris, devoting himself as much as possible to both fields.
He began showing in 1978. In 1982, the French Bibliotheque Nationale purchased several of his works for their permanent print collection. His work has been shown in France, Belgium, Italy, Hungary, Thailand, and the United States.
He has his own gallery in Nantes, where he shows both his own work and that of other artists. Schkolnyk works in black and white, and with three-plate color prints to create his fanciful still-life prints. His works capture both the spontaneous moment and a world which hands outside of time.
Schkolnyk explains that his prints are directly related to his feelings. He also fees very close to music, particularly jazz and classical music. When he works on a subject, he often tries to find a piece of music that corresponds to what he feels, and works with that music as he creates.
Schkolnyk discovered the mezzotint process through reading about it in an arts magazine. He began his work in mezzotint on his own, using the printing press available to his school. To create a color mezzotint, Schkolnyk prepares plates for each color needed. On each plate, you can see the burnishing and scraping that will produce the areas of single or multiple colors. In the final printing, you can see how the colors combine to create the finished image.
Claude Bouret, curator of prints at the National Library of Paris, described Schkolnyk’s work this way:
He began showing in 1978. In 1982, the French Bibliotheque Nationale purchased several of his works for their permanent print collection. His work has been shown in France, Belgium, Italy, Hungary, Thailand, and the United States.
He has his own gallery in Nantes, where he shows both his own work and that of other artists. Schkolnyk works in black and white, and with three-plate color prints to create his fanciful still-life prints. His works capture both the spontaneous moment and a world which hands outside of time.
Schkolnyk explains that his prints are directly related to his feelings. He also fees very close to music, particularly jazz and classical music. When he works on a subject, he often tries to find a piece of music that corresponds to what he feels, and works with that music as he creates.
Schkolnyk discovered the mezzotint process through reading about it in an arts magazine. He began his work in mezzotint on his own, using the printing press available to his school. To create a color mezzotint, Schkolnyk prepares plates for each color needed. On each plate, you can see the burnishing and scraping that will produce the areas of single or multiple colors. In the final printing, you can see how the colors combine to create the finished image.
Claude Bouret, curator of prints at the National Library of Paris, described Schkolnyk’s work this way:
“The mezzotint engraver hunts for shadows. He dives deeply in the
darkness to bring out gleaming and thrilling visions. With his
rocker, Laurent Schkolynk obstinately carves the copper for hours and
hours, creating with his own hands this velvet dark, this original
night which contains all the potential hues. “once the theme is
chosen and the subject outlined in a few strokes, the adventure begins
of hues patiently drawn out from his pure primary dark… there is always
the same mysterious and spontaneous approach: first the soft caress of
the burnisher picking essential shadows out of the mist, then the scraper
enhancing the motif through vivid glimmers. The instinct of the painter,
the obstinancy of the engraver.”
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