For this Christmas collaboration between Print Club London and Farrow & Ball, Lucille Clerc was asked to create a design and then screen print it using actual Farrow & Ball wall paint rather than conventional printing ink. The result sits in a particular place between two different kinds of craft: Clerc’s architectural line work and the specific, familiar quality of Farrow & Ball’s palette.
Screen printing with wall paint rather than ink presents its own technical challenges — the viscosity is different, the drying time different, and the surface quality is unlike anything produced with standard printing inks. That the result works as well as it does is a testament to the care both parties brought to the collaboration. Limited edition, signed.
