Two Houses, gel plate monotype by Daniel Arendzen, showing the printed image only: two traditional Malaysian houses in orange, the nearest one large at the left with a wooden staircase, the second smaller in the distance, with two dark palms, purple hills and a tall grey-blue limestone peak under a pale sky, on pink-purple ground, inside a bold rough black edge
Two Houses, 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.
Two Houses, gel plate monotype by Daniel Arendzen, shown in full including the paper and the pencil writing at the bottom. The impression shows two traditional Malaysian houses in orange on pink-purple ground, below purple hills and a tall limestone peak, inside a bold black edge, on textured cold-pressed paper
Two Houses, 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.
Two Houses, gel plate monotype by Daniel Arendzen, shown as a close-up: the orange roof and walls of the nearest house on its stilts, with the grey-blue limestone peak, purple hills and a dark palm behind
  1. Two Houses, gel plate monotype by Daniel Arendzen, showing the printed image only: two traditional Malaysian houses in orange, the nearest one large at the left with a wooden staircase, the second smaller in the distance, with two dark palms, purple hills and a tall grey-blue limestone peak under a pale sky, on pink-purple ground, inside a bold rough black edge
  2. Two Houses, 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.
  3. Two Houses, gel plate monotype by Daniel Arendzen, shown in full including the paper and the pencil writing at the bottom. The impression shows two traditional Malaysian houses in orange on pink-purple ground, below purple hills and a tall limestone peak, inside a bold black edge, on textured cold-pressed paper
  4. Two Houses, 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. Two Houses, gel plate monotype by Daniel Arendzen, shown as a close-up: the orange roof and walls of the nearest house on its stilts, with the grey-blue limestone peak, purple hills and a dark palm behind

Two Houses

RM555.00

Original (1/1) hand-pulled layered monotype print: Two Houses (2026)

Details:

Sizes:
• Paper size: A3, 29.7 × 42 cm (11.7 × 16.5 in).
• Art size: 22.9 × 30.5 cm (9 × 12 in).

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

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.

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Description

This print is a traditional Malaysian house in orange with a second house further away, on pink-purple ground below purple hills and a tall limestone peak, inside a bold black edge, and is a part of the Landscape collection. 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. Landscapes are different in reality. Sun, time of day, rain and haze create unique arrays of colours. Landscapes can be imaginary too at the same time by imagining worlds we want to be in and connect with.

These show the Rumah Ibu, the main part of a Rumah Kutai. These houses were built along the Perak River, facing the water, which was the community’s main route. The limestone hills are Perak’s too, but placing the houses among them is my own composition.

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.

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 collections are the Malaysian traditional houses.