(Re)discovering Vicki Penfold's linocuts

Resumen

Vicki Penfold (Krakow 1918 - Tenerife 2013) was a Polish-born artist who arrived in the Canary Islands in the 1960s after a long pilgrimage to places as disparate as Kenya, Paris and Israel, among others. She also traveled to Austria to become a student of Oskar Kokoschka in his Salzburg studio. Her personal archive, recently donated to the Instituto de Estudios Hispánicos de Canarias (hereafter IEHC) on the island of Tenerife, preserves a wide variety of materials that are currently being inventoried and catalogued. This collection presents a huge potential for study and cross-sectional analysis to address the methodology of the artist and the materiality of his work. This article proposes an initial analysis of the various matrices, relating them to the pieces currently preserved and establishing relationships with the documentation contained in his personal archive. It also aims to highlight Vicki Penfold as a graphic artist, perhaps her most overlooked facet, but one that highlights her enormous sensitivity and versatility in working with a wide variety of techniques.