Description
About the print
Hajah
Drawn by the artist Aia Leu in 1989 – a print of Hajah from the book Berber Tattooing.
A fine art signed giclee print made with archival inks on Hahnemüele 305gsm paper.
Size offered:
25 x 30cm / 10 x 12 inches.
All fine art prints are shipped by tracked post. Large prints are sent in a roll to avoid damage during shipment.
About the Artist
Born in 1971, Aia Leu is an artist and illustrator, when young she studied figure sketching in Vevey, Switzerland. A third-generation artist, she comes from a creative lineage; her grandmother, Swiss artist Eva Aeppli, was married to the renowned sculptor Jean Tinguely. Having relocated to Kenmare in 1989, Aia’s passion for drawing developed into a career spanning over 30 years as a landscape painter. She has illustrated and published art books and notably painted an award-winning tarot deck. She lives and has a studio just outside Kenmare, in the Caha Mountains.
Her paintings and artwork are available from her studio (by appointment only), online through her website shop, and also at the Kenmare Courtyard Gallery Co-operative in the heart of Kenmare, open 7 days a week.
Berber Tattooing is a unique and tender record of the tribal skin art of Morocco’s Middle Atlas. The result of a series of chance encounters, Felix & Loretta’s Leu’s road trip in 1988, opened a doorway into the intimate world of the women of the Berber tribes. In this book, the women tell their individual stories, revealing the traditions of the tattoo in their culture, together with insights into the lives that they led.
Sensitively captured in drawings from the time, by Aia Leu, the faces of the Berber women speak of a tribal culture that was fast disappearing, even then. As tattoo artists themselves, Felix and Loretta were able to find a common ground with the Berber families, gaining unprecedented access into this sparsely documented Berber art form.
This book of previously unpublished work, collected nearly thirty years ago is a tribute, to the art of tattoo, to tradition, to family and to love.
