We love the work of the fabulous Quiet British Accent so were very excited when they asked us to work with them to screen print one of their designs.
QBA are known for hand painting onto old pennies and leaving them around town for people to find. They wanted to take their painted penny designs onto … Continue Reading ››
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Recently we have been challenged to screen print almost to the limits of how big can we go! Two different customers asked us to print onto canvas using our biggest screen size.
These two large canvases were screen printed in 3 colours with the final layer having gold leaf applied by hand after printing. Printed as … Continue Reading ››
We have been screen printing some beautiful, multi layered editions for artist Simon Kirk recently. The original pieces by Simon are made using collage so our challenge was to create a screen print which had the feel of the original. We printed them in around 10 layers using semi-transparent inks to achieve the right look.
Here … Continue Reading ››
Hippo are very excited to announce that we are partnering up with Roy's People Art Fair this year. We will be LIVE screen printing at the fair which runs from 12th - 15th April at the Bargehouse, Oxo Tower, London.
Screen printed Tote Bags … Continue Reading ››
Screen printed Tote Bags … Continue Reading ››
RYCA Artist always keeps us busy printing his limited editions.
Here's a selection of prints we've made for him recently.
You can see more of RYCA's work here - https://www.facebook.com/RYCA.art/
RYCA's Love Beams screen print edition with … Continue Reading ››
RYCA's Love Beams screen print edition with … Continue Reading ››
This edition of 3 colour screen prints was a real challenge !!
Artist 'Non-Conformist' wanted to hide a secret message in these prints. The way we did it is TOP SECRET ! - All we can say is that we had to use 3 different types of ink to achieve the desired result, including Rub removable … Continue Reading ››
Lynne Blackburn opened her solo exhibition of original prints at The Cauliflower Gin Palace in Seven Kings for July's 'Second Thursday' event. 'Celebrating the Familiar' opened on Thursday 16th July and runs until 13th August. The exhibition looked fantastic in the gorgeous surroundings of the Victorian Gin Palace and received some great reviews. The show also … Continue Reading ››
We're very proud to announce that we had the privilege of working with artist Carne Griffiths on a beautiful screen print of his ink, tea and alcohol drawing 'Flower of Life'.
'Flower of Life' is a 7 layer screen print, hand printed by Lynne Blackburn at Hippo Screenprinters. With the full involvement of Carne at every … Continue Reading ››
SORRY this workshop is now FULLY BOOKED
One day linocut workshop using Japanese Vinyl.
Your workshop tutor will be Sam Marshall. You can see Sam's work here - www.sammarshallart.com
This workshop is aimed at anyone who is new to linocut and also students who have experimented before but who would like to refresh their skills and knowledge.
Over the course … Continue Reading ››