California Dreamed - A series of contemporary fine art prints by graphic artist and designer Francis Kenney. Pieced together from personal and found photographs and paper cuttings, they address the collapse of the American dream. They are collages of a collective memory, of a place that no longer exists, and perhaps never did. An America dreamed.

The collages are printed as lithographs on 300gsm uncoated Fresco Gesso paper.
Sized at A3 - 594 x 420mm, each of them is available in an edition of 10.

RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW - Artist's Print by Francis Kenney

Jesus Jones, Fat Boy Slim, whatever your cultural reference, this is the moment to grasp the nettle. Yesterday has passed, and tomorrow may come, but all that matters is NOW.

Lithograph on 300gsm uncoated Fresco Gesso paper.
594 x 420mm. Edition of 10.

Diversion Ahead -

A digital collage print by graphic fine artist Francis Kenney

Our Summer holidays generally involve quite a few diversions, both good and bad. There’s a little bit of escapism from normal life for a week or so. Then there’s the inevitable road diversion that arises. And of course, there’s the essential daily holiday diversion for ice cream.

Digital collage • Lithograph print on 300gsm Fresco gesso paper • A4 - 21 x 29.7cm • Edition of 25 • Signed and numbered

It might be worth something someday -

A print by Graphic Fine Artist Francis Kenney.

A phrase that both my parents would say to me throughout their lives about keepsakes and ‘antiques’. This piece is a memorandum to live life in the now, as someday may never come.

Lithograph on 350gsm uncoated paper, velvet finish with gold foil. 

Signed and numbered on verso.

210 x 297 mm. 

Edition of 25.

WHEREVER YOU ARE

URNS -

A series of print works with colourful funeral urns by Graphic Fine Artist Francis Kenney. The bright shades on these memento mori pieces urge joy in the face of death.
They symbolise faith, and the enduring nature of memory and a love that transcends physical separation. 

Vanitas - I to X is a series of ten modern memento mori pictures, by Graphic Fine Artist Francis Kenney

Symbolic vanitas pictures were popular in the 17th century, serving to remind the viewer of their mortality in a religious age when almost everyone believed that life on earth was merely a preparation for the afterlife. 

I'm not so sure about the after life, so best enjoy it all now and laugh through the tears. They are intended as a jolly jolt to remind me of my mortality.
Alongside traditional vanitas items like rotting fruit and candles, the party hats and the clown noses and smile are a reminder to me to turn up the frown and have a good time while it lasts as the end could be just around the corner.

Vanitas - I to X

594x841mm on 310gsm Hahnemühle German Etching paper

It all begins with an idea.

Memento Mori

“What the world needs now… is love, sweet love, it’s the only thing that there’s just too little of”