Ringlet screenprint
Here's a Ringlet butterfly in our garden, on some frothy Alchemilla Mollis or 'Lady's Mantle' flowers, resting it's velvety wings.
These new screenprints are based on the proportions of vintage tea cards - they came free in boxes of tea. There were different birds or butterflies to collect and you could send off for a book to stick them in. My Grandma collected them for me and I have her 'Bird Portraits' and 'Tropical Birds' from Brooke Bond tea collector books as sweet mementoes. I've since bought a second hand card book of British Butterflies :)
I wanted to make my own collection based on visitors to our garden (Garden obsessed) and have enlarged the proportions to make these screenprints. I'm using pencils, pastels and ink to make the stencils for these, rather than working on them digitally, which gives them loads more texture and a looser feel, reflecting the sometimes fleeting nature of the garden visitors!
This butterfly is hand screenprinted in three colours on Southbank paper in an edition of 22, paper size; 25x35cm approx, image size; 13x26 approx
