Jacky Goes To School - Original Artwork

A young girl stands ready for school, her back to us, yellow hair catching the light. She wears a hot pink dress scattered with cream polka dots, turquoise sleeves visible beneath. This is Jacky Goes To School, and she's walking straight into a layered world of childhood memory and urban grit.

The background is rich chocolate brown, hand-pulled as the base layer. Over this, Fowler builds a collaged dreamscape: cream swirling graffiti clouds drift across the upper left, a golden star compass spins mid-composition, fragments of vintage school readers peek through at the base—children at desks, forgotten textbook illustrations from another era. The girl herself is rendered in bold pop-art style, black outlines defining her silhouette with graphic confidence.

This is an original artwork. Not part of an edition. A one-off.

The paper stock carries weight—you feel the tooth of it, the way each layer of ink sits distinct. Fowler builds this piece through multiple screen passes: that chocolate brown first, then the collaged background elements in cream and gold, the pink dress requiring careful registration, the turquoise sleeves, finally those precise black outlines and details pulled last. Each layer dried between passes. Each colour mixed by hand. The polka dots—hand-cut stencil work, probably six or seven individual dots punched from the screen.

There's nostalgia here, but it's not sentimental. The vintage school imagery collides with street art energy—graffiti clouds, bold colour, that urban rawness. It references Lichtenstein's pop sensibility but grounds it in something more personal, more British, more layered. The girl could be from a 1960s reading primer, but she's been pulled into now, into a world of spray paint and screenprint ink.

Fowler's Central Saint Martins training shows in the composition—nothing accidental, every element earning its place. Twenty-six years of pulling screens means knowing exactly when to stop, when one more layer would kill it.

Who is this print for? Collectors who understand that hand-pulled means unrepeatable. Once it's gone, it's gone. Own a piece of British screenprint craft.