Patricia Hardmeier’s artistic practice centers on oil-based monotype printing. Drawing on a background in ballet, flamenco, and graphic design, the work investigates the relationship between movement and mark-making. Gesture functions as structure: each mark carries directional force, rhythm, and interruption translated into print.
Working primarily on aluminium and copper plates, she applies and manipulates oil-based inks through layering, subtraction, pressure, and transfer. In monotype printing, pigment is drawn directly onto a smooth plate and transferred once to paper, producing a singular impression that cannot be replicated in the same form. The resulting print records both the physical act and the material resistance of the process.
Print-based work driven by gesture, tension, and spatial fragmentation.
Marks cannot be revised once transferred; decisions remain visible. This condition generates a balance between control and volatility, where spatial tension emerges through accumulation, disruption, and contrast. Monochrome surfaces amplify density and depth, allowing gesture to operate as both movement and structure.
The practice operates independently from her commercial design work while remaining grounded in disciplined investigation of force, surface, and composition.
