From Valeska Hykel’s Intrusions series — her solo exhibition at Print Club London in June 2024. This screen-printed monotype is presented in a natural oak float frame. Blurring the boundaries between painting and printmaking, Hykel paints directly onto the screen mesh, creating expressive, one-off impressions where the artist’s hand and the tactile marks of the process become integral to the work’s narrative. Each piece is a unique, collectible original.
Permanence of Change: the paradox that sits at the centre of Hykel’s practice — the processes of life and decay, the idea that what persists is the very fact of transformation. Valeska Hykel is a painter and printmaker based in Bristol whose work is an ongoing dialogue between these two practices. She graduated with an MA in Multidisciplinary Printmaking from the University of the West of England in 2022, where she was awarded the Rebecca Smith Prize for Printmaking. She was selected as a ‘Top Pick’ at Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, was Print Club London’s artist in residence in April 2023, and returned for her solo exhibition Intrusions at PCL in June 2024.. Her work explores longing and the concept of Panmnemism: the idea that inanimate objects hold onto memories, absorbing our joys and traumas and repeating them back in distorted echoes. Our guide to investing in original artwork is worth reading at this price. Signed. £1,200.
