I’ve just handed in my completed screenprint for the Hot Bed Press 2014 ’20:20 Print Exchange’.  The 20:20 Print Exchange is a yearly event whereby printmakers are invited to produce a print measuring 20 x 20 cm in an edition of 25.  You then submit your prints to Hot Bed Press and an army of volunteers (including me today!) sort them into boxes.  Every entrant gets a box of prints back randomly chosen from the thousands available.  Last year 585 artists took part producing 14,625 prints between them.

My print this year uses some drawings taken from my Clarendon Square Shopping Centre workshops whereby young people drew their houses for a larger piece of artwork.  I scanned these drawings into the computer, tweaked them (a little!) and created a five colour screenprint called ‘Houses of Hyde’.

I’m pleased with the result especially as I wanted to experiment with using overlays of colours to create further colours and it worked really well.  I also continue to use ‘Frisk’ Film for the stencils rather than the more traditional paper / newsprint.  Frisk Film doesn’t buckle and concertina on the screen so colour registration is much easier and  more constant.

I’m going to give the school an artist’s proof of the final screenprint as a thankyou!