Combining two of my favourite activities- swimming and screen printing. My latest screen print offerings are a celebration of swimming.
I’ve spent most of my life living by the coast and after moving to London 8 years ago I really missed the sea. I took up swimming again when I was living in Greenwich which rekindled my love of the water. There’s something restorative about moving in water. I hadn’t appreciated how important swimming was to me until lockdown when the pools closed and my one of my forms of escapism was taken away.
I was drawn to swimming outdoors last year starting off in Brockwell lido and trying the ponds at Hampstead Heath. Since moving to Crystal Palace I am now a regular at Beckenham Place lake (yes I am planning to go through winter… wish me luck!) Swimming in lakes, rivers and the sea this year has been incredible. Every time I get into that cold body of water with the ducks and ducklings it resets me and I feel reinvigorated when I get out. It’s just me floating in the water and I created this series of prints to try and capture these little feelings and moments.
A few months ago I was feeling unmotivated and took the day off to sketch just for fun. I picked up two random pens and sat on the sofa in front of a film. The water in the final prints are exactly the shape of the sketches I made that day, little irregular puddle shapes that I would usually try to perfect but I kept them the way they were. I printed at Sonsoles Studio in Peckham, I highly recommend this printing studio if you want to get into screen printing, they are so helpful and friendly.
Each print is signed and numbered, a limited edition of 20.
There are 3 designs; Sea Celebration, The Dip and Reset. Each design is a limited edition of 20 and I have signed and number each of them. They are A4 size (210 x 297 mm) printed on Somerset Textured paper and packaged with recycled backing board and packaged in a recyclable glassine envelope.
