In 2004 a company contacted me about a revolutionary new business idea: affordable framed, fine art prints for children, sold online. “The Sleeping Boy” mounted in a white box frame: limited edition of 100: hand-signed by the artist: printed on Arches 100% cotton rag paper at Toronto Image Works in Toronto. Because I consider each print an artwork the reproduction process is crucial to the result. I print on cotton rag paper to produce an artwork in its own right, and with high aesthetic quality, rather than to print on canvas, creating a product that may mimic the original.
In contrast to these traditional qualities, and in contrast to mass production of prints generated from un-proofed digital files, my goal is to create a Giclee print, as realistically and faithfully as is technically possible, to the colour and clarity of the original artwork. In addition to variables intrinsic to each unique printmaking process, colours can be interchanged and layers may be deleted or added, offering elements of originality to each print. Within traditional forms of printmaking, such as silkscreen, lithography, etching, or woodcuts, a variety of prints may be made from the same piece. I believe that a faithful reproduction of an artwork is of utmost importance for the viewer of the Giclee print, as is the recording of music for the listener, or the unabridged version of a written work for the reader. Each print is hand-signed by me, guaranteeing the artist’s approval. The final Giclee image is generated from archival pigment-based inks and high-precision printers on 100% cotton rag paper. The painting, and not the digital file of the painting, is then the original, as the proofing is done by comparing the print side-by-side with the original painting.
My Giclee prints are created from the original painting using high resolution scanning or photography, and with proofs approved by me for colour matching.
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