From material to gesture, from gesture to emotion.

Elena Radeva — Skylar Press

Elena Radeva · Knowlton, 2026

Elena Radeva

Master Printmaker — CMAQ
Founder of Skylar Press
Montreal & Knowlton

Artist and printmaker, Elena explores gesture, material and phenomenology through linocut, ceramics and letterpress. Trained in architecture in Paris and design in Montreal, she founded Skylar Press in 2018.

Embossed letterpress relief

Letterpress

An art of time,
of precise gesture.

Letterpress is one of the oldest printing techniques — each motif is carved, hand-inked, pressed onto paper. One by one. The impressions are made by hand and every result is unique.

"Slowness is a form of attention."

Discover the process →