Fleur Dempsey’s latest screen-printed editions, Green and and Orange and extend her exploration of colour and echo the tonal shifts found in the deep greens and warm oranges of the landscape.
These works are constructed from hand-painted positives made in the studio, each one carrying the gestures and textures of the original marks.
Custom-blended inks have been built up in rhythmic layers, creating a surface where crisp graphite-ink lines meet broad, luminous bands of colour. The prints hold the tension between control and fluidity, revealing how Dempsey manipulates structure to let colour resonate.
Autographic screen printing allows artists to craft imagery specific to the medium through painted, drawn, and freely marked positives. In these new editions, every brushstroke and tonal shift made on the transparency has been translated into print, preserving the immediacy and materiality of Dempsey’s practice. The resulting works carry both the precision of printmaking and the expressive language of painting - a dialogue that continues to define her evolving series.
