![]() ![]() Take a look at the landscapes of Sarah Ross Thompson, where in sections of her seascapes you can see materials such as hessian, giving a sense of drama and depth. Artists use textiles, scraps of paper, bubble wrap, string or even found objects such as buttons or leaves on their collagraph, creating richly textural relief work. In this multilayered process materials are directly applied to a piece of paperboard or wood creating a collage-like feel. Similarly, the wide range of Japanese artists exhibiting with Hanga Ten, including Kazutoshi Sugiura’s floral prints layered with gold leaf, demonstrate the endless versatility of screen printing, from the traditional to the abstract. Screen prints don’t only produce bold, graphic designs the medium also allows thoughtful and more atmospheric works, such as Chitra Merchant’s layered designs with their stunning compositions. Any would be a welcome addition to a room in need of some love! Take the summer holiday palette of Bonnie and Clyde’s beach inspired prints, the solid colour blocks of Pure Evil or the intricate and ethereal work of Bristol-based Simon Tozer. This process creates prints with a vibrant graphic quality, where colours compete for centre stage. It can be a lengthy process as only one colour can be printed at a time, so many artists use a number of screens to produce a multicoloured design. However, where it can – paper on the other side of the mesh is imprinted with the beautiful ink designs. The design is created as certain areas are masked out, so the ink cannot pass through the mesh. Screen printing is essentially a stencil method, where ink is pushed through a mesh which is stretched around a fixed frame, using a tool known as a ‘squeegee’. The most popular, and well-known, form of printmaking is screen printing, sometimes known as silk screen printing. ![]() To help whet your appetite to the delights that printmaking can offer we’ve picked a few of our favourite techniques and prints: Screen printing ![]() Our online shop includes a whole host of printmakers working across multiple mediums. You’ll be amazed by the range, style, colour palette and content that printmakers can play with. The beauty of limited edition prints is they are one of the most economic ways to start your art collection. Other galleries specialise in specific printing styles, such as Hanga Ten, which exclusively shows contemporary Japanese prints. Rostra Gallery provides a smorgasbord of punchy and humorous prints in their Bath-based gallery, as do Wychwood Art in Oxfordshire. Whilst Affordable Art Fair is home to a number of London based collectives and galleries that pride themselves on being print specialists – Printmakers Council or Manifold Editions to name a few – the love for printmaking is spread far and wide. This means that prints span from the simple to the intricate, geometric to linear, can be graphic or abstract, complex or minimal – so it’s easy, and a lot of fun, to find the perfect pairing for your interior. These diverse methods allow artists to experiment, with many using a wide range of techniques in their practice or even in a single piece. Affordable, contemporary and multilayered in their production, printmaking is the umbrella term for an amazing array of techniques including silkscreen, etching, dry-point, woodcut, collagraph, linocut… the list seems endless. In recent years, the London art scene has flourished with studios and galleries that focus on printmaking. ![]()
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