Monoprints

Monoprinting involves the direct application and manipulation of ink onto paper. With no printing matrix involved, monoprinting stands alone as a print medium which produces only unique original works on paper. Inventive, experimental artists, willing to test and explore the medium, tend to find it suitable as it demands of him/her a certain playfulness and directness of approach.

Brian Michael Clarke has been making a rich and varied body of monoprints over many decades. This is partly due to the fact that it is a process which lends it self to a reiterative way of working; continually revisiting and revising image after image in order for the artist to gain a particular affinity with his/her materials both physically and in terms of the artist’s imagination. It is in this manner that Brian Michael Clarke sustains the production of a series of works; with each piece feeding off the last and so on in order to cultivate something like a sustained visual polyphony, rich in nuance and resonances.