FAQs

The new gouttelette process is a highly refined form of digital printing. It allows the use the beautiful uncoated papers, which are better for image reproduction because they allow the ink more easily to travel down the paper fibres and into the sheet ("wicking"), and better for quality because the coating used on many coated papers can make the print more prone to fading. The gouttelette process, combined with the traditional skills and experience of the printing team, thus creates results far superior to the average digital print.

Printed onto the highest quality archival substrates and using only very specialised inks, gouttelette prints have the remarkable colour saturation and continuous tone characteristics one would expect of an original painting. In fact, with an apparent visual resolution of over 1800 dpi (dots per inch), distinguishing a gouttelette from an original can be very difficult, even to the expert eye

Gouttelettes are generally printed onto acid-free calcium carbonate-buffered archival watercolour paper or onto fine archival-quality cotton canvas coated with an acid free primer. On light-fastness, the ink and paper combinations generally used meet the standards of both the Fine Art Trade Guild's blue wool scale and those of Wilhelm Imaging Research in America. And, leaving aside the technical specification, the quality of the print is fantastic!

An artist’s proof is a term used in printmaking to describe a limited number of prints that are made outside of the regular numbered edition of a print.

APs are signed by the Artist and tend to have a higher value than prints within the edition.

In traditional printmaking methods such as etching, engraving, linocut or lithography, APs are used as a way for the artist to make final adjustments to the image or to experiment with different colour combinations. He/she creates an image on a metal plate, stone, woodblock or lino, which is then inked and printed onto paper.

An artist’s proof is a print that is made using the same base as the regular edition but is set aside and marked AP (or EA - Epreuve Artiste - in the case of Ronald Searle, as his lithographs were printed in Paris) rather than being numbered and included in the main edition. Typically, there are only a small number of artist’s proofs produced, which are numbered in pencil.

APs of prints in the contemporary Giclee printing method, for example by Quentin Blake, Helen Craig etc. are usually limited to about 15 in number, some of whih are kept by the artist for his/her archive, and some of which become available for sale.

A limited edition print on canvas is printed using the highest quality giclée technology.  It has a plain white margin of at least two inches all round, which is used by the framer to wrap around a stretcher frame.  The artist signs and numbers the edition in black ink directly on the lower left and right of the image.  The canvas is varnished.  Framing is exactly as you would an original oil painting, the stretched canvas is framed with no glass.  The result is impressive and very similar to the presentation of an original oil painting.  

Yes, absolutely. Just enter your country in the checkout and delivery cost is calculated.  Typically, one or more unframed prints in an order will cost in the region of GBP £18 to deliver to a US address.  The cost of shipping framed artworks depends on size and destination and is calculated at checkout.

If you are ordering outside the United Kingdom there may be local customs charges, taxes and import duties for you to pay.

Your credit / debit card company does the currency conversion at the exchange rate prevailing at the exact time of the transaction, so we cannot quote an exact figure.  Google gives you a close estimation.