Simon Kroug
Engraver artist
Lausanne

« During the long phase of engraving the matrix, my mind wanders in the image that arises. He dreams it and shapes it without my being able to explain either the why or the how. »

A graduate of the Cantonal School of Art in Lausanne, Simon Kroug worked for nearly ten years as an illustrator for publishing houses in Switzerland and France. He then decided to devote himself to his personal work in engraving in savings size. Since 2017, he has been co-manager of Relief atelier galerie, a space mainly dedicated to printmaking, engraving and custom framing.

« To engrave the thousands of small interdependent surfaces which constitute the light at all, to spare the full, fascinates me. »

Simon Kroug mainly uses engraving in savings size on linoleum or on wood, a technique considered against the current of our time by its slowness. He relies on instantaneous or memory photographs or sketches to make his engravings using traditional Japanese gouges, self-made inks and natural fiber papers.

Training

2001 Diploma in visual arts, École cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL), Renens

Connections

https://www.reliefateliergalerie.com/

https://www.instagram.com/simon_kroug/