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Purple Mountains, gel plate monotype by Daniel Arendzen, showing the printed image only: a traditional Malaysian house on stilts with a rust-red roof and dark walls, under green coconut palms, on barren orange-brown land with a rust-red path in front, and layers of purple limestone hills below a pale lilac sky
Purple Mountains, gel plate monotype by Daniel Arendzen, shown in full including the paper and the pencil writing at the bottom. The impression shows a traditional Malaysian house on stilts with a rust-red roof under green coconut palms, on barren land in front of layered purple limestone hills, on textured cold-pressed paper
Purple Mountains, gel plate monotype by Daniel Arendzen, framed and standing on a carved wooden cabinet under a barred window, with a mug for scale. The room is a Blender render of the interior of the same traditional Malaysian house shown in the print.
Purple Mountains, gel plate monotype by Daniel Arendzen, framed on a wooden wall under a spotlight, seen from the side, with binoculars, a watch and a lighter on a table below. The room is a Blender render of the interior of the same traditional Malaysian house shown in the print.
Purple Mountains, gel plate monotype by Daniel Arendzen, shown as a close-up: the rust-red roof and dark walls of the traditional Malaysian house on stilts, with a green coconut palm and purple hills behind. It shows the brayer and brush strokes on the textured paper
  1. Purple Mountains, gel plate monotype by Daniel Arendzen, showing the printed image only: a traditional Malaysian house on stilts with a rust-red roof and dark walls, under green coconut palms, on barren orange-brown land with a rust-red path in front, and layers of purple limestone hills below a pale lilac sky
  2. Purple Mountains, gel plate monotype by Daniel Arendzen, shown in full including the paper and the pencil writing at the bottom. The impression shows a traditional Malaysian house on stilts with a rust-red roof under green coconut palms, on barren land in front of layered purple limestone hills, on textured cold-pressed paper
  3. Purple Mountains, gel plate monotype by Daniel Arendzen, framed and standing on a carved wooden cabinet under a barred window, with a mug for scale. The room is a Blender render of the interior of the same traditional Malaysian house shown in the print.
  4. Purple Mountains, gel plate monotype by Daniel Arendzen, framed on a wooden wall under a spotlight, seen from the side, with binoculars, a watch and a lighter on a table below. The room is a Blender render of the interior of the same traditional Malaysian house shown in the print.
  5. Purple Mountains, gel plate monotype by Daniel Arendzen, shown as a close-up: the rust-red roof and dark walls of the traditional Malaysian house on stilts, with a green coconut palm and purple hills behind. It shows the brayer and brush strokes on the textured paper

Purple Mountains

RM475.00

Original (1/1) Monotype print by Daniel Arendzen, Purple Mountains (2026)

 

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Impression Description

The traditional house is standing more distance, in the shadow, empty, and you can see the mountains through the windows. The house stands on barren land in front of purple mountains. Skies can have a wide range of colours and the rich, warm colours in the front contrast with the distant mountains. There are several versions of the house and this follows the tradition with the typical knack in the middle so the roof looks majestic at the walls. But now? There is some loneliness in there too.

Details:

Type of art:
Unique (1/1) original hand-pulled layered monotype print

Medium:
Acrylic paint on paper printed, pressed and hand-pulled from a gel plate.

Sizes:
– Paper size A4, 21 × 29.7 cm (8.3 × 11.7 in).
– Art size 20.3 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in).

Paper: 100% cotton, acid-free, cold pressed, 300gsm, sourced from the EU. Cold-pressed paper is textured which gives the print a rougher and unique feel.

Authenticity: All art comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Art is signed, titled and dated below the artwork with pencil.

Series: This print is a part of the Landscape series. Parts of Malaysia have breathtaking limestone hills where these houses once stood. I am interested in creating landscapes to give the traditional houses a place to stand, a place to ground, a place you can go to. Here the house stands in its full right.

What is a monotype print?

A monotype is a type of print whereby the printmaker starts with a clean plate the paper is pressed on after the image is created, and ends with a clean plate after the paper is pulled from it. It is, therefore, impossible to create the same image twice as opposed to monoprints. With a monoprint, the plate the paper is pressed on has the image permanently created in it using different techniques. Then it is possible to reproduce identical prints in smaller limited editions (or just only one of course).

All the impressions I make are monotypes. The gel plate is clean so I will have to start anew to create the next impression. This ensures you always will have a unique print that nobody else has.

The artist & printmaker

Daniel Arendzen in a hat and glasses holding a yellow gel plate monotype of a traditional Malaysian house, standing inside a Blender render of the same house, with a carved wooden window behind him.
Daniel is standing in the digital version of the house he is holding in his hands.

Daniel Arendzen is the artist and printmaker who makes original works of art using traditional printmaking techniques with a modern twist in which he first recreates traditional houses digitally before transforming them into physical pieces. His primary objective is to (re)connect people with home through traditional architecture from all around the world. His current series are the Malaysian traditional houses.

 

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