Sandra, and the Endless Summer

Description

This 4 colour limited edition screen print (edition of 10) was inspired by a beautiful old photo album found in Spitalfields Market depicting the life of a group of twenty-something year old Belgians from the 1920s. I felt moved by the images of these young men and women, carefree, not knowing what lay ahead of them as these were the years between the two World Wars. This lead to a series of screen prints starting with ‘Claudine à la Plage’, and later ‘Sandra’.

This 4 colour limited edition screen print (edition of 10) measures approximately 38 x 49cm, paper size 56 x 75cm, printed on acid free archival paper.

Will fit inside a standard 50 x 70 frame. Please note that this print is sold unframed. Postage discount for buying multiple prints at one time.

What is a Silkscreen Printing, or serigraphy?

Interestingly, the Word Serigraph is a combination of two Greek words, seicos, meaning silk, and graphos, meaning writing. Silkscreen Printing and other stencil-based printing methods are the oldest forms of printmaking. Printmaking is a process for producing editions (multiple originals) of artwork as opposed to painting, which produces a single original piece of artwork. In printmaking, each print in an edition is considered an original work of art, not a copy.

It is a stencilling method that involves printing ink through stencils that are supported by a porous fabric mesh stretched across a screen. One screen is used per colour. The basic printing process is the forcing of ink through a stencil onto paper, “pulling, with a squeegee. Each colour must be printed in the same place and in the same order for each print to resemble the original. Part of the process is separating the image into different colours – one for each screen – and have an order in which they are laid on top of each other.The screen printer pulls ink across the printing frame, which has been placed above a sheet of paper that will hold the art work. The ink is then forced through the screen and onto the paper below.

This process is repeated on all sheets of the edition, and then the stencil is destroyed. After the set number of editions have been sold there will be no more!