Recently, I was invited to contribute images to a updated revision of Jane Dunnewold’s book, Improvisational Screenprinting, currently underway. Jane is a well known teacher and artist who has found ways to explore approaches to creativity and playing as a way of developing as an artist. I looked through my image files and found these samples, which all include a mixed technique approach to making fabrics. You’ll see registered screen printing in regularized patterns, and multiple screen overlays used for generating texture and layering in conjunction with monoprinting. Also included are screen prints over vintage and repurposed linens.
Screenprinting has always been exciting and inspiring to me. Now, with photo emulsion techniques, we can translate drawings to screens in ways that were not possible in the 1970s and 1980s. In those days, really toxic chemicals were used to adhere screens. I gave it up for a couple of decades. Now, I choose from more than 40 screens in my studio, and I’m always adding more. I use them for creating richly texture fabrics, and also simple functional textiles for the artful home.
