By: Erik Desmazières

Medium: Etching, aquatint, roulette & drypoint
Year: 2019
ImageSize: 23.8 × 31.5 in
Edition: 60

In Atelier, villa du Lavoir, Erik Desmazières renders a masterfully detailed portrait of the printmaker’s workshop—an environment dense with tools, presses, papers, pigments, and accumulated history. The composition stretches across a broad, luminous space, inviting the viewer to wander through shelves of inks, stacks of plates, and the monumental gears of the press itself. Desmazières balances technical rigor with atmospheric quiet: every object is crisply articulated, yet the room feels softened by time and steady work. It is both a documentary study and a poetic homage to the craft of printmaking, capturing the soul of the atelier with extraordinary depth and clarity.