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About my Art Work My work is available as either an original or a fine art Limited Edition giclée print and professionally framed. My Limited Edition prints are professionally produced by the Giclée printing technique using the leading inks in the industry today and are very limited indeed. Each edition is limited to a maximum of 100 and therefore highly collectable. All have been individually signed and numbered by me and are validated by a Certificate of Authenticity. My HeART Ceramics are inspired by the paintings from the Home Sweet Home & Seaside Collections. These are either hand printed or hand painted, signed by the artist with a Certificate of Authenticity and all Gift Boxed. My Bath Body & Boudoir Products are all 100% natural with the fragrances inspired by my original paintings. These have been handmade in Derbyshire and are exclusive to STUDIO 61. These contain No Chemicals No Artificial Colours No Parabens About Giclee Printing Giclée prints provide top quality resistance and possess archival standards of permanence. Giclée printing offers one of the highest degrees of accuracy and richness of colour available in any of the reproduction techniques
Giclee (zhee-klay) - The French word "giclée" is
a feminine noun that means a spray or a spurt of liquid. The word
may have been derived from the French verb "gicler" meaning "to
squirt".
The term "giclee print" connotes an elevation
in printmaking technology. Images are generated from high resolution
digital scans and printed with archival quality inks onto various
substrates including canvas, fine art, and photo-base paper. The
giclee printing process provides better color accuracy than other
means of reproduction.
Giclee prints are created typically using
professional 8-Color to 12-Color ink-jet printers. Among the
manufacturers of these printers are vanguards such as Epson,
MacDermid Colorspan, & Hewlett-Packard. These modern technology
printers are capable of producing incredibly detailed prints for
both the fine art and photographic markets. Giclee prints are
sometimes mistakenly referred to as Iris prints, which are 4-Color
ink-jet prints from a printer pioneered in the late 1970s by Iris
Graphics.
Giclee prints are advantageous to artists who do
not find it feasible to mass produce their work, but want to
reproduce their art as needed, or on-demand. Once an image is
digitally archived, additional reproductions can be made with
minimal effort and reasonable cost. The prohibitive up-front cost of
mass production for an edition is eliminated. Archived files will
not deteriorate in quality as negatives and film inherently do.
Another tremendous advantage of giclee printing is that digital
images can be reproduced to almost any size and onto various media,
giving the artist the ability to customize prints for a specific
client.
The quality of the giclee print rivals
traditional silver-halide and gelatin printing processes and is
commonly found in museums, art galleries, and photographic
galleries.
Numerous examples of giclee prints can be found
in New York City at the Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of Modern
Art, and the Chelsea Galleries. Recent auctions of giclee prints
have fetched $10,800 for Annie Leibovitz, $9,600 for Chuck Close,
and $22,800 for Wolfgang Tillmans (April 23/24 2004, Photographs,
New York, Phillips de Pury & Company.)
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