Where Is The Fun? - Original Artwork

Where Is The Fun? is exactly the question this original screenprint answers the moment you lay eyes on it. This is not a quiet piece. It hits you with a wall of fluorescent hot pink, electric cyan, acid yellow and deep violet — a chromatic riot that crackles with the energy of someone who has completely and joyfully lost control, on purpose.

The Story Behind The Work

After years of refining his screen printing practice to a state of technical near-perfection, Oli reached a crossroads. The work had become flawless. And that was the problem. Flawless had started to feel hollow — too close to a digital output, too far from a human hand. So he scrapped it. He walked away from the sanitised precision of the computer and walked back into the mess. Back to handmade positives. Back to raw physical intuition. Back to the visceral, honest energy of ink pulled by hand across a screen.

This radical shift is anchored by a personal manifesto: "If it's fun, I want some; if it's a chore, I don't want it anymore." That is not a slogan. That is the entire operating philosophy behind every layer you can see in this piece. The work prioritises the intrinsic joy of making over commercial safety, and you can feel it.

What You Are Looking At

Bold, cartoonish flowers burst upward from the picture plane, their outlined petals stacked and layered in pass after pass of ink. Behind them, the manifesto text repeats itself across the background — IF IT'S FUN I WANT SOME — rendered in chunky teal lettering that bleeds and overlaps through the dense, glorious texture of multiple print layers. The composition fizzes with a kind of childhood energy, the kind you stop letting yourself feel as an adult. This piece gives it back to you.

The flower is a constant thread through Oli's work right now — a singular aesthetic anchor running through the chaos, grounding the riot of colour and texture into something coherent without ever making it feel safe or predictable.

The Object Itself

This is a unique original. It is presented in a handmade oak cladded frame measuring 695 x 955mm with a 70mm depth — a substantial, commanding presence on any wall. The frame itself is crafted from found wooden board salvaged from the local community, which means the object carrying this work has its own material history, its own imperfections, its own story. That is entirely intentional. The frame and the print belong to the same honest, handmade world.

The work is signed on both the front and the back and comes with a certificate of authenticity. It was made in 2026.

Why This Matters

This is not a print that fits neatly into a category. It is not fine art in the stuffy sense, not street art in the obvious sense, not pop art in the nostalgic sense. It is all of those things and none of them. It is the work of someone who has consciously rejected the boxes artists get put in and leaned hard into being a Jack of all trades — present in the moment, reacting honestly to ink on paper, chasing creative happiness as the only metric that actually counts.

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.