Mikael Wahrby

Mikael Wahrby was born in 1952 in Hägersten and he still lives and works there today. In the 1970s he was a student at the Royal Academy of Arts in Stockholm, where he also worked as a lecturer in copper prints 1994-2010. Since the end of the 1970s, he has been active in his own copper printing workshop.

In his creative process, he starts with a pencil drawing which is then drawn in reverse on a primed copper plate. The plate is etched in several layers before being printed on copper printing paper. 

Mikael Wahrby is represented at i.a. Moderna Museet, Nationalmuseum, Gothenburg Art Museum, Malmö Museum, Norrköping Museum, The British Museum London, H.M. The king