At the end of the last UK summer, as i was preparing to host my last screen-printing workshop before moving to New Zealand, i made these prints of the flowers in my garden in Glastonbury.
Using a combination of open-screen techniques with photographic stencils ontop to make these layered almost collaged images.
Ghost printing with heaps of gloopy medium and paper stencils creates messy un controlled marks and textures whereas using tight and detailed stencils on screen adds the neat lines and details.
I love this method of working and am building up to working on some prints of my new “backyard” AKA Papamoa Beach BOP New Zealand. Using similar techniques to build up a memory of our lockdown time when i looked harder and longer at seaweed than i ever have. It was beautiful.
These “Our Garden” prints , both originals and digital prints on fine art heavyweight paper, ( all A4 size images on A3 paper) are now available to buy from Imprint Gallery, Historic Village, 17th Avenue, Tauranga, Bay Of Plenty, New Zealand.
They are the only original bits of artwork that i packed when moving my life here. Everything else remains on the walls in Glastonbury or stored in a shed. I miss my art. Alot. And i also miss the prices of art equipment in Europe . as slowly collecting up the necessary bits and pieces in order to print on paper here has been a costly project!
