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Based in Berlin, Britta is an internationally renowned illustrator. Her pictures draw strongly on folklore, the forest and tales of the Brothers Grimm, creating a playful, haunting feel that is childlike and unnerving in equal measures.
Already well-established as a leading children's book illustrator, Britta's fine artwork (exhibited at Sesame) retains a childlike simplicity and purity but with distinctly dark undertones. Her monoprints are unusual in every sense. Technically, the process of printing and then hand-finishing the prints on paper, then varnishing them onto canvas, makes them unusual - the process of cut-and-paste layering begins with the materials. In her images she likewise takes a patchwork approach, with different motifs repeating in sequential combinations: hand-drawn portraits of herself as a child, of her mother or her son; the sinister pair of boys lurking in the distance; the imaginary animal friends that leap in and out of the images - all meet each other time and time again in sparse, dream-like landscapes that play host to Britta's imaginary memory wonderland.
As such, Britta's monoprints form part of an extensive landscape composed of both dreams and memories, where snapshots from the artist's childhood mingle with imaginary characters and her own experiences of childhood from an adult, parental pespecive. Intimate, fun, dark, and deceptively playful, Britta's works are all about the childhood we often barely remember, but then never really leave behind.
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