MONOTYPES

Printmaking is an incredibly versatile medium – frustrating, exciting, unpredictable, creative, and rather wonderful. It requires patience, as so many prints fail, but when the perfect print is pulled it is immensely satisfying.

The word Monotype comes from the Greek word ‘mono’, meaning ‘single’, and is known as the most painterly method of all the printmaking techniques. Its key characteristic is that no two prints can ever be the same. Although the images may be similar, editioning is not possible and each print is absolutely unique.

Monotypes are created through applications of ink that are rolled, brushed, daubed or otherwise applied and manipulated on to a smooth, non-absorbent surface such as plexiglass, and then hand-rolled through a printing press.