screenprinting/serigraphy

  Serigraphs, otherwise termed screenprints, are created by pulling thin layers of colour through a stretched polyester mesh onto paper, employing stencils to control where it is placed. Layers of colours are built up one at a time, and the image is invented and adapted while it is being made. Colours can be varied from print to print, and painterly effects incorporated. This means that no two prints are identical, some are deliberately very varied. Small ‘editions’ can run from 3 – 15 prints, usually around 7.

This is why they are known as ‘original’ prints, they are not reproductions of an image that existed before, but are devised and created  in the making.