We are very sorry to announce that Roy’s Art Fair, due to be at OXO Tower from 2nd to 5th April 2020, has been postponed because of the Coronavirus outbreak. We were going to be LIVE Screenprinting a brand new and exclusive edition of 2 colour screen prints for Daniel Crossan, as well as exhibiting […]
Author: Lynne Blackburn
Last few LONDON POLICE screenprints
These are now SOLD OUT We have a few of these 4 colour screenprints by The London Police left over from our appearance at last weekends Roy’s people Art fair. The screenprints were hand printed LIVE at the event and the remainder are now available to buy from our shop. The screenprints are A3 […]
LIVE Screenprinting with Wishbone Publishing
We are very excited to be appearing at Wishbone Publishing’s event at Adam Handling’s new Cocktail lounge in Hoxton on Saturday 27th October. Come and see us at the Iron Stag, 45-47 Hoxton Square, London N1 6PD : Hippo Screenprinters will be screenprinting an edition of 5 layer screenprints by JJ Adams over 2 sessions […]
Working with art duo ‘Quiet British Accent’
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 […]
Screen Printing huge canvases !
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 […]
Multi layered screen prints for Simon Kirk
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. […]
LIVE Screen Printing at Roy’s People Art Fair !
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. We will be printing editions of screen prints by Simon Kirk and Ian Bailey […]
RYCA screen prints
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/
‘Conundrum’ screen prints for Non-Conformist
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 […]
Ian Bailey’s Wallpaper at V&A
We visited the V&A Print Study Room in May, along with other members of the Printmakers Council, for a talk by the print curator Gill Saunders. Gill had prepared a selection of recent print acquisitions for us to look at and amongst those chosen was our own Ian Bailey’s ‘Rebellion’ wallpaper ! Gill Saunders acquired […]