Edition 9 is the on-line studio of Ulrike Sturm.

In my art practice, I most often express my visual ideas in works on paper: illustrations for children's books, artist books, linoprints, etchings, watercolours and pencil drawings.

The smells of a printmaking studio with its etching inks, rosin, clove oil and zinc plates being warmed up to apply a soft ground, are intoxicating to me. Add to that a new etching plate (preferably with the edges already bevelled) or a nice fresh linoblock, and my imagination floats into another world.

In a quiet space, with a box of decent pencils or aquarelles and some good paper, I am happy too. Exploring my thoughts through images makes hours become timeless for me.