Decorate like an art boss with these screen prints for your home.

Do you love typography, illustration, and the resurgence of DIY and folk art spurred on by the rise of both virtual and physical markets celebrating the independent art and craft movement? Of course, you do. Do you love clever design and have a unique sense of beauty? Yes? Are you in need of some lovely art for your home? Did you answer “yes, yes, and yes?” Then read on, my friend, to find some lovely screen prints to decorate your space.

Screen printing is nothing more than a low-tech printing technique. It allows artists to make multiple prints from one piece of artwork and to do so in a very affordable way. This means it’s possible to find amazingly clever prints at prices that are approachable for your average art lover. There’s no art auction house or fancy schmancy art gallery involved– just you and an artist making an art transaction.

Whether your tastes run more to the illustrative, graphical, urban, or twee range, there’s a screen print out there for you. Here are some of our recent favorite screen printed finds.

7 Fantastic Screen Prints for Your Space

1. Earth Print – We are in love with the bold and simple designs from Brainstorm Print & Design. This Earth print is part of the Earth Science collection that includes Earth, Ocean, Space, and Atmosphere. Buy one, or buy them all. Each print is made with five colors and is signed and stamped.

2. Gemini Screen Print – Gemini is part of the limited edition five-color silkscreen collection featuring all the astrological signs and by artist and screen-printer Daria Tessler. Her work is so layered and delicate that it’s actually difficult to believe that they are screen-printed!

3. Bird 3 –  This beauty would look great in your space. It’s printed using four inks, including metallic gold and silver. From the super talented Nate Duval, it was printed in limited edition run of just 50 posters.

4. Sanctuary Silkscreen Screen Print Poster -Doug Ross depicts the species that inhabit Santa Cruz with a stylized eye and a modernist touch. His silkscreen prints are hand pulled, and this piece is from a limited edition of 54.

5. No Other Stories Exist Screen Print – Channel your inner wild child with this nature-inspired print from New Antlers Illustration. It is a hand-printed, 5-layer silkscreen printed on beautiful Madero Beach French cover stock. It is from a limited Edition of 50 that have been signed and numbered.

6. Longtime Sunshine Screen Print – The is hand drawn and printed poster features a popular blessing sung during Kundalini yoga. It features three colors of ink– transparent turquoise, yellow, and bright pink–printed on white French Paper card stock and is from a limited edition of 35 prints, signed and numbered. Each print is unique because of the hand made process.

7. Dylan in Seattle Screen Print – Hang a musical legend on your wall–or, at least, a screen print featuring Bob Dylan. This three color silkscreen poster, printed on thick French Paper Company is a must have for Dylan fans. It’s a signed limited edition designed by Concepción Studios.

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“Start anytime, with anything, enjoy the journey and after a while ‘getting there’ will become irrelevant.” – Sylke Golding

Sylke Golding started in a shoe store. Well, she was discovered in one. It’s a dreamy tale of being in the exact right place at the exact right time, causing the trajectory of your life to spin off in a crazy, unexpected direction. One minute, you’re shoe shopping with your sister and two weeks later, Elite Model Management has you jetting off to Paris for the summer to take test portfolio shots. Ain’t life grand?!

Sylke spent the next decade working with some of the most progressive, important fashion houses in the world, namely Valentino, Prada, Armani and Comme des Garçons, both on the runway and in print. And where is she now? Creating small batch, thoughtful fashion in her Brooklyn studio under the moniker Sealmaiden.

No, Sylke doesn’t have her own couture line. Yet. She is a textile surface designer; she creates and executes stunning silkscreen designs onto existing cotton dresses, shirts and bags. She’s a hardworking, self-taught, one woman operation, from sketches to screen-building to hand inking every garment.

Though quite removed from the bright lights of the catwalk, she has discovered her element and a bit of artful meditation along the way: “I have found peace of mind working for myself and by myself, space and time disappear and I am just doing. It’s also lot of work and many long hours spent completing orders and working every day including weekends. But it is totally worth it. I am the boss here! As a model one is rarely allowed input into the creative process. Often you are just there to be pretty and make the clothes look good. But this is mine, I own this.”

Despite being surrounded by fashion icons for a decade, the surprising catalyst for opening her own studio was her husband: “Sometimes it takes another person to make you see things about yourself that you cannot see on your own.” Back in her modeling days, she would keep a little notebook with her to help kill time between shoots and on airport layovers.  She filled these notebooks with doodles–her husband wanted her to do something with them. “A new design usually starts with looking at my old doodle drawings. I am always amazed how ‘new’ they look after not having looked at them for a while. Even drawings I initially did not consider a success. Months or even years later I finally have developed the eye to see it – some things take time.”

Her current designs are incredibly elegant and dramatic with an air of fluidity, particularly her on-trend use of metallic inks on black–nature-inspired designs that read a bit Art Deco. As a model, she loved “Japanese designers best, Comme de Garçons and of course Yohji Yamamoto were really quite something else,” she said. “Later on when I visited Japan, I understood why, what really got to me was their way of making the extraordinary look unassuming and unpretentious.”

“I can’t call out one particular thing that will inspire me. Inspiration is funny that way, it just hits you and you see it. It can happen while walking the streets or flipping through a magazine or watching a movie. Its a accumulation of past experiences and all the things you have seen before and things that caught your eye a long time go and somewhere got stuck in your head…Inspiration is everywhere.”

The Sealmaiden collection is eco-friendly and socially responsible, produced using only ethically sourced, sweat-shop free materials (shirts, dresses, totes) and printed with 100 percent water-based inks. This has always been of huge importance to Sylke, not as a sales tool or a desire to serve an environmentally aware niche market, but in the most sincere way possible: “I love nature and I love eating healthy nutritious foods. I love the natural order of things. I want to help preserve this.”

What’s the next chapter in Sylke Golding’s journey? She’s completed a few semesters at FIT to hone her skills in pattern-making and garment construction and has her heart set on starting her own stem to stern clothing line.  Those notebook doodles will become full-realized fashion sketches and she’ll be hiring models of her own. She’ll be walking the runway again, this time at the end of the show, to gather applause and garner praise for a job surely well done.

All photos of Sylke Golding appear courtesy of Sealmaiden

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