The Stripe Set screen print

A new screen print I have been working on for a while is now available on the Garudio Studiage shop here. I had been looking at ways of portaying a group of animals with some visual similarlites - in this case ones with stripes! To get away from the formal  style of some of my previous previous prints, I experimented more with layering and collaging the images. Although the style of drawing alludes to natural history illustrations, the compostition and categorising are more unscientific.

Screen Printed on Somerset Velvet 250gsm Soft White Paper 40 x 50cms.

Images below show parts of the screen printing process.

final print, edition of 12

screen negative before being printed

Screen and final print side by side

The Ferocious Tasmanian Tiger

Our friends at A Secret Club in Denmark asked us to participate in an exhibition on the theme of an explorer in 'the Eastern Forest'. My piece is about the Tasmanian Tiger, or Thylacine:

The Tasmanian Tiger ( or Thylacine) was officially declared extinct in 1982 . There have been many alleged sightings of it since,but no concrete evidence of it's existence, despite various financial rewards being offered over the years for proof of it's continued existence.

 

One theory of  why the Tasmanian Tiger was hunted to extinction  was because of it's portrayal as a ferocious and dangerous animal in the various visual portraits of it in the 19th/early 20th century, leading farmers to believe it would destroy their livestock.  Accounts of the animal suggest it was actually a placid and shy animal.  In my drawing an explorer has come across the Tasmanian Tiger in the Eastern Forest, and discovered it as it should have truly been represented.

 

Pen and watercolour on paper.

 

More info on the exhibition here.

 

Exhibition in Aarhus runs until 21st April 2014