Malayan Tapir - Endangered Animals Riso Print

This Malayan Tapir print is one of a series of Riso prints of endangered animals.
10% of sales from these prints will be donated to charities 
working to preserve endangered animals in their own habitat.

Riso printing is very energy efficient, sustainable and non toxic way of making prints.
 It’s been around since the 1970’s and put simply is a sort of cross
 between screen printing and a photocopier. 
With real inks and real layers each one is very slightly different. 

The Malayan Tapir lives in Southeast Asia from the Malay Peninsular to Sumatra.
 It is the largest of the four species of tapir and the only one living in Asia.
 The other three species live in Central and South America. 
The baby tapir’s spotted and striped coat helps camouflage it in the forest. 
This coat will fade 4 to 7 months after its birth to be replaced by the distinctive,
 bold, black and white coat of the adult.
The Malayan Tapir has been endangered since 2008.

Paper size: 29.7 x 29.7 cm.
Open edition, titled and signed.

Sarah Young is a painter, printmaker, illustrator and maker. As a printmaker she makes  lino and wood cuts but also works in screen printing, riso and collagraph.
Many thanks for looking!