ImagesMagUK_December_2021

www.images-magazine.com 32 images DECEMBER 2021 N estled between Bristol and Glastonbury, in the heart of the Somerset countryside, Rockaway Park is a community of artists and artisans where social conscience and sustainability are paramount. It is here that Si Atkin relocated his print business, Carry on Screening, from London at the start of this year, attracted to its creative atmosphere and its values, which match his own. Among the studios built of repurposed timber and sculptures made from stuff that other people have thrown away, Si is demonstrating what can be achieved through manual printing with water- based inks in a sustainable and ethical way. “Like a lot of people, Covid gave Walking the walk Mark Ludmon visits Si Atkin at his sustainable and ethically driven print shop, Carry on Screening, where he practises an alternative approach to screen printing, business and life us time to pause for thought,” he says. “You look at your approach to things. We had been thinking a lot about sustainability and the environment and having a lower-impact life. We were asked if we wanted to come to Rockaway and build a custom studio out of recycled materials – a blank canvas – which is an opportunity we would never have had otherwise.” Si has been printing since his early teens when, growing up in Auckland in New Zealand in the mid 1990s, he started decorating T-shirts with his own designs inspired by his favourite punk bands, using stencil cuts, clamps and water-based inks. “Being in New Zealand, I couldn’t access band T-shirts easily for a lot of the Carry on Screening is based at Rockaway Park, a community of artists and artisans Si Atkin at Carry on Screening