About

Ralitza is a visual artist whose work explores intimate choreographies between figures and environment. 

Her current practice is anchored in drawing and printmaking. Ralitza’s process begins with feeling into a personal experience and creating space for an idea to emerge. From this an image comes alive and is developed through a series of drawings and, sometimes, writing, until its essence reaches some clarity. In transforming these drawings into prints, Ralitza finds the image further formed by the materiality of the printing processes. She enjoys the physicality of drypoint and engraving which feel akin to excavating a latent presence out of the metal plate. In subsequent stages she is guided by the needs of the plate, moving to etching, aquatint and other techniques. Multiple plates are often layered in the final stage to deepen the intensity of the image and attune to the emotional tone of her idea.

Raised in Bulgaria, Ralitza lives and works in London where she continues to hone the art of printmaking with the master printmakers of the Royal Drawing School.