The principle is straightforward. Ink is pushed through the tiny holes of a stencil, which is normally made of a fine nylon or polyester mesh real silk screens are rarely used today. Selected areas of the screen are blocked out and consequently the ink is prevented from penetrating to the paper below. By this simple means complex images can be achieved. A new screen is made for every change of color in the design, often as many as fifty or more.
Screen printing offers creative opportunities never before available to the artist.
The surface can in fact be made up as a montage, offering great flexibility and creative potential to the artist. During printing new colors are applied individually to the paper through each successive screen, building up the image and all-important texture step by step. Each screen carries a separate part of the final image. Ink can be opaque or highly translucent and the color of screen prints is inevitably strong and bright. Lucelle s publisher, London Contemporary Art, is recognized in the art world for its exceptionally high quality reproductions.