#silkscreen printing

A Minimalist Fine Press Friday

This week we present a fine-press pamphlet by a poet and an artist noted for their spare compositions. British artist and filmmaker John Christie uses minimalist silk-screened squares to illustrate Scottish poet and physician Gael Turnbull‘s equally sparse poem Nine Intersections, printed in 1982 by Christie at Ron King’s Circle Press in Guildford, England in an edition of 70 copies signed by the poet and artist. This is one of 14 publications Christie printed for Circle Press. Despite its minimalism, or perhaps because of it, the pacing, movement, and rhythm of this little book is wonderfully satisfying.

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New project I made with Kaori! 

“Spirit chimeras” silkscreen print on a natural dyed cotton, an exhibition piece in collaboration with Kaori Pie for Grafische werkplaats, the Hague.

We are all different yet we share some similarities. We try to fit into certain groups but tend to differ from others. We try to place our differences and similarities into categories like ethnicity, upbringing, race or gender. To emphasise how different and yet how similar we all are, we created a universe of chimeras that all share certain body parts or patterns as well as have their own unique parts. They exist together and seem wildly different while still sharing something with one another.

We are moving towards a society that is mixing influences and more and more, cultures are being intertwined and translated into other expressions. As we are reborn into new lives with different societal and cultural constructs, we can’t help but be influenced or inspired by what we see in other people from around the wold. Passion and the spirit in the human mind find these connections that draw us to each other to learn and to feel engaged in a broader mission than to find reasons to divide us into our differences.

Here is the world where our creatures live, with their powers both shared as well as expressed in a different way.

Working at the Grafisfhe werkplaats the whole day, trying to learn patience and gracefulness through the silkscreening process. 

Printing Wednesday, A1 first time.

Friends! While our brand new picturebook ‘My color is rainbow’, with Agnes Hsu is on its way, silkscreen prints are here as a special pre-launch treat! Five designs featuring selected spreads from the book, screen printed, signed and numbered by me. See all 5 designs in my shop oretsy shop if you prefer
Thank you for your support <3

snaps of my work lately. Keep learning to silkscreen through screen printing #mycolorisrainbow book illustrations.