Erasmus & Sergei - Hand pulled Serigraph

Erasmus & Sergei - Hand pulled Serigraph (screenprint) from Greymouth artists Colby Smith and Stephen Tschopp from Safran House

Limited edition of 192 - individually numbered and signed

43cm x 63cm

PAPERS IN EDITION: 250gsm Ivory-White Manilla •  330gsm Kraftpak (brown recycled) 
• 1600gsm Bookbinders Cover Board (grey, recycled) 

DEPICTION: An Octopus representing Erasmus the patron saint of sailors is gently held in the safety of a sailors cupped hands (Sergei from roman Sergius: servant & protector). Rays of golden shimmering light (metallic glitter in varnish) emanate from Erasmus. Sergei wears only a sailor’s hat bearing a Jolly Roger skull with a crossed Trident and Shepherd’s Staff. He is covered in tattoos of sea creatures, a cat, a rabbit, pugilist frog, flowers and stars. Letters spell out “high tide” across his fingers. There is a lagoon in the background with a small atoll visible on the left and the wide open sea on the right. Eight sea birds and two high altitude jet planes with vapour-trails plus some clouds are in the sky. An arrangement of marine plants (neptunes necklace, Rhodophytes and a coral branch) with two seashells and a hermit crab brace the bottom.