Hi! I’m Nane!

I was born and raised in Yerevan, Armenia, a city where history is everywhere— etched into stones, woven into carpets, and passed down through stories. As a kid, I found school pretty dull, but art school was a different world. I never really learned to draw in the traditional sense, but that didn’t bother me. What excited me were the printing techniques we explored, especially linocut. There was something about carving into linoleum, rolling ink over the surface, and pressing it onto paper that felt just right.

I went on to study art history, earning two degrees in the field. I’ve always loved modern and contemporary art, but when it comes to my own work, I keep coming back to something older—Armenian art from the pre-Christian era and its echoes in modern times. That’s what inspires Linopatum.

“Patum” stands for the Armenian word “narrative”, “story”. And that’s really what I’m doing—telling stories. Armenian visual art has this deep, intricate history, yet so much of it has been overlooked. It shaped medieval art in ways most people don’t realize. I feel a pull to bring that hidden brilliance forward, not as a historian, but as an artist. Linocut is my way of doing that—translating the past into something you can hold, see, and connect with today.

This is my way of keeping those stories alive.