North Gate Dragon and Songbirds Royal Pavilion and Garden Brighton

Print description

This print depicts a mischievous bearded classic Asian dragon flying through the Brighton Royal Pavilion. I

Print details

Digital pigment print from original ink drawings. Printed on fine art paper using archival inks. Available in sizes A0,A1, A2, A3 or A4 as limited editions of 100. Each print is individually signed and numbered.

Homage to Hokusai

This print is a homage to one of my favourite artists, Hokusai, for two reasons. The first reason is the choice of motifs that I have created which echoes some really beautiful natural patterns by Hokusai: the clouds, the branches in bloom, the bushes in flower, the birds and the geometrical background. The second is the method I have followed to create this design. Hokusai was a master and revolutionary printmaker. With this in mind and aid by modern technologies I have somehow recreated a printmaking approach to this print. My method consisted in drawing different sheets of original ink drawings that later on will form a single motif. This can be appreciated on the studio photograph of my ink drawings. For example I created the branches with four drawings: the block colour, the bark pattern, the flowers and the leaves. I love to express patterns of nature in art, it is a natural repetition with variation, it is a code of nature that is embedded in the DNA of every living being.