Carmen Gracia travelled across the Atlantic by ship to Paris where she gravitated to a place called Atelier 17, a studio run by the renowned British artist Stanley William Hayter, who had a profound influence on her work and career as an artist printmaker. Hayter is noted for his innovative work in the development of viscosity printing (a process that exploits varying viscosities of oil-based inks to lay three or more colours on a single intaglio plate)