At £2,450 with a free frame included (pick up only or we can arrange courier at cost) , this is one of the most significant pieces currently available on the...
At £2,450 with a free frame included (pick up only or we can arrange courier at cost) , this is one of the most significant pieces currently available on the site — and the frame alone at this scale would ordinarily cost several hundred pounds. Turquoise Pink Cut Flowers is part of Oisín Byrne's second series of Dahlia screen prints, conceived as a sister set to his 2023 Irises triptych, extending that earlier edition's exploration of scale, chromatic intensity and what flowers can do when a painter who has spent decades working in oils turns his attention fully to the screen print medium.
The print was made at Advanced Graphics London, the only remaining studio in the UK still working with oil-based screens — the same studio that has produced prints for Michael Craig-Martin, Patrick Caulfield and Craigie Aitchison. Byrne worked closely with master printer Bob Saich over many months, building each print through fourteen separate hand printings, many colours applied more than once until the palette does what Byrne demands of it: to sing. The turquoise and pink combination is among the most optically active of the series — the colours pulling at each other across the paper in a way that shifts depending on the light and the distance you view it from.
Hand-printed on Somerset Satin 410gsm paper with a torn deckled edge, numbered and signed by the artist. Poet and critic Wayne Koestenbaum wrote of the Cut Flowers series: "Byrne's flowers seduce, at first sight: their keen colours out-pop Warhol's blooms. Oisin's posies, like Andy's, are inanimate, but they stream with mobile life, like a dancer whose flight Mallarmé might have tried to reproduce in a clause that never lands."
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Oisin Byrne
“Byrne’s flowers seduce, at first sight: their keen colours out-pop Warhol’s blooms. Oisin’s posies, like Andy’s, are inanimate, but they stream with mobile life, like a dancer whose flight Mallarmé might have tried to reproduce in a clause that never lands.”
– Wayne Koestenbaum
These four ‘Cut Flowers’ screenprints of Dahlias by Oisin Byrne were conceived as a sister set to the tripdytch of Irises of 2023, extending that earlier edition’s exploration of scale, chromatic intensity, and floral form.
All work is handprinted on Somerset satin 410gsm paper stock, signed and numbered by the artist.
