London Daisies

Limited Edition Unframed silk screen print by Annie Smits Sandano

Dimensions: 50 x 36cm
Hand printed silk screen over spray paint and acrylic
Limited Edition 13 of 30 (unique)

Annie Smits Sandano is known for her vibrant, handcrafted silkscreen prints that blend bold graphic forms with a playful contemporary folkloric sensibility. Her Lobster and Daisy series, produced during her printing residency at Sonsoles Studio in London, reflects a distinctive balance between organic originally hand rendered subject matter and highly stylised flat colour background composition.

Created using traditional silkscreen techniques, the works in this series emphasise detailed crisp outlines screen printed over the top of and carefully layered acrylic inks and spray paint. The lobster—often associated with the sea, resilience, and delicacy—is juxtaposed with the daisy, a symbol of simplicity and natural beauty. This pairing creates a subtle tension between strength and fragility, rendered with a lightness that keeps the imagery accessible and decorative without losing conceptual depth.

The London context is important: the city’s dynamic printmaking scene and rich history of graphic arts inform Sandano’s approach, particularly in her embrace of repeatable imagery and bold visual language. Each print in the series carries slight variations inherent to the hand-pulled silkscreen process as well as unique painted backgrounds, reinforcing the tactile, artisanal quality of the work. The spray paints used in the colour backgrounds are also a nod to the graffiti seen all over London and it's ubiquitous presence in the cityscape.