Lara Bujanda 'Torch Bearer' Print Available

Artist: Lara Bujanda
Title: Torch Bearer
Medium: 3 Color Screen Print
Size: 50 x 50 cm
Edition: 25
Prices: €40

 

Lara Bujanda is a Spanish illustrator and screen-printer who operates from a Berlin studio under the imprint Subterranean Prints, a one-woman design workshop dedicated to striking gig-poster art. Born in Spain and now aged thirty-nine, she migrated to Germany seeking a fertile, affordable base where she could control every stage of production, from initial sketch to final squeegee pull. Working primarily with hand-cut stencils and layered acrylic ink, she builds dense, high-contrast imagery that fuses the raw immediacy of punk flyers with the refined alignment of Swiss poster tradition. Her palettes tend toward bruised purples, hazard oranges and metallic silvers, colours that leap off matte black paper and echo the thunder of the heavy bands she often represents.

Bujanda’s creative process is deliberately physical. She begins each commission by listening repeatedly to the client’s album, absorbing tempo changes and lyrical themes, then distils those sensations into a single emblematic scene. Sketches are translated into rubylith films, cut with a surgical knife and printed on recycled stock pulled through a manual carousel press. Editions rarely exceed one hundred copies, ensuring every sheet bears subtle variations in ink density and registration that collectors prize as proof of handmade authenticity.

Despite humble beginnings screen-printing demo sleeves for local punk collectives, her reputation has grown through word-of-mouth among metal, hardcore and electronic labels across Europe. Recent commissions include the atmospheric cover for Norwegian progressive outfit In Vain, praised for its “classy, doomy” elegance that mirrors the record’s sonic scope. Interviews reveal an artist comfortable with evolution: she jokes about once living “as punk as possible” but now embraces precision, proof that craft and rebellion can coexist when ink meets paper under the steady hand of Subterranean Prints.