Beautiful and evocative
handmade, limited edition screenprints and monotypes
What is the screenprint process?
I discovered screenprinting during my Foundation diploma course at Putney School of Art and Design in 2017. I still print in the studios at Putney and teach screenprinting there during half terms and holidays. See link below for more information on my courses there.
The screenprinting process involves creating stencils on nylon mesh screens and pulling thin layers of ink through the screen onto paper. You make a separate screen for each colour. My prints can involve multiple layers and take many hours to complete.
I tend to keep my print runs (editions) small, around 10-15 per print and, as each is handmade and can involve blends of colours, the colours vary slightly from print to print.

For this series of landscape prints, I began with a photograph of trees that is first translated into black and white monotype, where the focus is on light and shade. I then break down that printed image and reconstruct it through colour screenprinted layers. I tried different colour combinations, which makes for a varied edition of prints with a range of different colours. I use layers from the monotype and intersperse these with others derived from the original photograph before adding hand-drawn pencil marks.
Rather than presenting a complete description, these prints invite you to enter a world adjacent to the photograph, where memory and feeling take precedence over reproduction.
Printed on Somerset velvet paper, traditionally an etching paper. The texture of this soft paper lends a layer of complexity and surface to these atmospheric limited edition prints.
Varied edition of 10
Unframed - £300
Framed - float mounted as shown £450