Engraving Stories

Engraving Stories

We visited Martin Mörck to learn about his craft, work process and thoughts on the communication between nature and creativity.

"I love that feeling of not being 100 percent sure if I can make it."

How is your art form related to other creative people like painters or musicians?

The hand and mind communicate to create images. I have always been driven by the pencil, by the line instead of the surface. Painting is more covered to create feelings and vibes and I have always been more into the line. But it’s the same drive to express something. I think it’s the same with musicians. My youngest son is both trained artist and musician – you never relax because you always have some creative process in your head. I think it’s absolutely the same – and also the need of training your technique and creativity. Like a violin player, she needs to train every day, she can’t go on vacation for three weeks and then stand on the stage of the Metropolitan.

Where do you find most artistic satisfaction in your work?

I am totally passion driven, so I love to start up things and I have a hard time to let them go.  I like to have many projects at the same time and I always try to have as long deadlines as possible, so I can have my babies on the table as long as possible. I am most driven just by the process. When I am there – inside the process – then I can sort of let time and space fly away and I am just there.

"I was kind of predestinated to work with art. I never had any thoughts about school – it was something that just didn’t exist in my mind. It was something I had to go to for nine years. That was it."

COPPER STICK CRAFT

"If you want to create a classic engraving the way of mixing is very central – the spacing of the lines, amount of dots, where the dots should transfer to be lines, so it all melts together optical."

How is your art form related to other creative people like painters or musicians?

The hand and mind communicate to create images. I have always been driven by the pencil, by the line instead of the surface. Painting is more covered to create feelings and vibes and I have always been more into the line. But it’s the same drive to express something. I think it’s the same with musicians. My youngest son is both trained artist and musician – you never relax because you always have some creative process in your head. I think it’s absolutely the same – and also the need of training your technique and creativity. Like a violin player, she needs to train every day, she can’t go on vacation for three weeks and then stand on the stage of the Metropolitan.

Where do you find most artistic satisfaction in your work?

I am totally passion driven, so I love to start up things and I have a hard time to let them go.  I like to have many projects at the same time and I always try to have as long deadlines as possible, so I can have my babies on the table as long as possible. I am most driven just by the process. When I am there – inside the process – then I can sort of let time and space fly away and I am just there.

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