Limited Edition Etching by Sylvie Auvray

Sylvie works in many different mediums – from ceramics to paintings to etchings to jewellery making to photography. She always experiments with different materials, making alchemy on paper or clay or any other medium she chooses. Her works are abstract and surreal, almost carnivalesque in character – she creates strange creatures, which are based on found objects or images. Working on her print at Il Bisonte, she surprised everyone with the imaginative selection of materials – far from using the traditional etching pen on copper plate, she used different liquids in order to create imagery by chance. At the end, the large shape in the middle is reminiscent of a ghostly spirit, so she name the print after Elvira – the local legend of a young beauty who haunts the woods of Villa Lena.