No two are the same. Each one finished by hand. Each one unrepeatable.
The Work
Without Fear (Sans Peur) reconstructs Jacques-Louis David's Napoleon Crossing the Alps — one of the most celebrated and politically charged images in Western art history — through a contemporary visual language that is entirely Preston Paperboy's own. The image began as an original painting before being developed into a series of hand-pulled silkscreen works, each subsequently returned to the artist's studio and individually reworked by hand. The silkscreen provides the foundation. Preston decides what it becomes.
Nathan Preston is a self-taught painter born in Essex in 1992, whose practice employs layered mark-making, negative space, and fragmented detail to create emotionally charged, open-ended narratives between realism and expressionism. Sans Peur is his most ambitious print project to date — and its first realisation in editions.
The Edition
After each silkscreen is pulled and dried, Preston works directly on the surface — applying paint by hand, making marks, responding to the print in front of him. These additions are unplanned and unrepeatable. No two prints receive the same treatment. No two prints are identical.
This is edition of 20. There will be no reprint of this image in this form. Once these twenty works find homes, that is the end of the standard edition.
Silkscreen hand finished by Preston Paperboy
16 × 24 inches
Edition of 20 unique works
Hand-signed and numbered by the artist
Accompanied by Certificate of Authenticity
Available framed or unframed
Framing: black frame, deep white conservation mount, conservation-grade anti-reflective glass
