Marits Cornelius Escher is famous for his work as a printmaker, which is an artist who carves a design into a flat surface such as wood or metal, and prints it on paper to make many copies. Escher often showed optical illusions or impossible spaces in his work, which was both highly imaginative and very well crafted. His ideas were often mathematically inspired and featured impossible constructions, explorations of infinity and tessellations, which are a group of shapes that blend into each other to form a patterned design. Esher was inspired by many things around him, including landscapes, architecture, animals and his travels around the world.
