Paper Matters — a close look at limited-edition fine art prints

A detail of a Conor Harrington colour screen print — a lace cuff holding floral bunting, with yellow ink drips.

Technique

Screen Printing

A collector's guide to screen printing — where it came from, how a screen print is made, what makes one an original worth owning, and the artists behind it.

Step into a world of substance, where the texture of paper, the weight of ink, and the marks made by the artist's hand are all part of the story.

At Paper Matters, a print is not a reproduction of a work that exists in another medium—it is the work itself, carved, rolled, or pulled by hand. The artists in our collection treat the edition as a discipline rather than a shortcut, often working with master printmakers whose craft shapes the final piece. The result is work grounded in slowness and intention—art that is made, not generated.

Recent Essays

What is a lithograph?

Lithography

What is a lithograph?

A lithograph is a print pulled from a flat stone or plate via the chemistry of grease and water — distinct from a woodcut, etching, or photomechanical reproduction.

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What Is a Screen Print?

Screen Printing

What Is a Screen Print?

What sets an original fine-art screen print apart from a commercial print or a digital reproduction — the technique, the names it goes by, and the artists working in it now.

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Ukiyo-e

Woodcut

Ukiyo-e

Ukiyo-e, the "pictures of the floating world" — a collector's guide to the Japanese woodblock tradition: how the prints were made, their masters, and originals versus reproductions.

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Artists in our collection

FAILE

FAILE

Three screen prints by the Brooklyn duo: one on the hand-cut butcher paper of their street posters, two printed on both sides of a cotton sheet.

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Martin Whatson

Martin Whatson

Norwegian stencil and street artist. The collection holds Poise, a 2026 screen print, and Equilibrium, a 2022 woodblock made with Tokyo's Adachi Institute.

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Murmure

Murmure

French street-art duo Paul Ressencourt and Simon Roché. The collection holds Cast Shadow, a 2026 etching, and Precarious Habitat, a 2026 stone lithograph.

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