Quick Studies For My Next Painting Collection

Using a combination of acrylics, aerosol, screenprinting and collage

Another Amazing Screen Printing Artist...

To compliment an earlier post (nearly a year ago now!) on 12 incredible screen printing artists, I recently stumbled across Kate Banazi, a screen printing artist who's work can literally knock the spots of a leopard. I love the simple use of colour, and brilliant combination of pattern and imagery on these pieces...

6 Amazing Contemporary Abstract Artists

It's not too often that I feel charmed and inspired by the abstract artworks of creatives I find online. When I do I'm left gobsmacked and envious. This happens to be the case with these guys whose works communicate a finely balanced range of disciplines including colour use, shape, mark-making and layout. All conveyed with a spectrum of emotion clearly designed to illicit a specific response from the viewer. Smashing stuff!

Audrey Phillips

Damien Tran

Michel Keck

Rankle and Reynolds

Tina Atchison-Thomas

Trevor Kiernander

Calling Card Screen Prints

Some years ago while on my Fine Art degree course I undertook a project involving calling cards. I decided to take a trip to London’s Soho and peruse the red phone boxes (as they were then) to get a proper idea how these unique advertisements were constructed. Naturally nothing was implied: services supplied, images and messages were all explicit. It takes little imagination to understand that all information on these cards highlights a bleak reality for those involved.


The original cards I took are lost but with them I produced several very large scale screen prints. Layering images, texture and colour are important factors for me no matter what the subject matter and these resulting prints are no exception. I even used car spray as a final layer of colour to simply reflect the crude nature of the subject matter.

Very recently having invested in a DSLR camera I re-shot these prints and was surprised that they still hold up to my own scrutiny. I’ve always liked studying hidden corners of abstract artworks to find the devil in the detail. With this in mind and thanks to the quality of the shots I’ve decided to publish these close-ups here…(do adults REALLY enjoy nappy training?)…

12 Brilliant Screen Printing Links

Nothing like a bit of hand-pulled inspiration.

http://www.productofgod.net/

http://www.steadyprintshop.com/

http://www.revengeissweet.org/index.php?/project/st-prints/

http://www.vrooooom.org/

http://burlesquedesign.com/

http://statusserigraph.com/work/view/posters/avett-brothers-new-years-eve/

http://www.danstiles.com/

http://thelittlefriendsofprintmaking.com/

http://www.jealousprints.com/

http://hereticprintmakers.blogspot.com/

http://www.printclublondon.com/

http://www.halftonedef.com/showroom.html

New Print Collection

The finished collection will also be available as silk screen prints. For now I just wanted to share these designs with my friends on the social grapevine...

New Screen Print Design 'Collapse'

This is the first of a series of new screen prints. I've realised that I can produce more quickly in my makeshift semi-professional studio if they're smaller with fewer colours. So this next series of 10 A3 prints will hopefully be a more manageable bunch than previous editions. Watch this space for the other designs...

Screen Print Finito...Introducing Double Dog

After a long and winding road involving the purchase of poor quality inks, amateurish technique and long periods with very little time on my hands I've finally arrived at my latest finished screen print. Thanks have to go to the knowledgeable fellas at the brilliant gigposters.com who's simple advice regarding squeegee handling and ink viscosity has saved me effort and yet more time.