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Quotes from artists and auction houses
Artist’s prints can be wonderful works of art, testaments to ideas, which could not exist
in quite the same way in any other form. They possess qualities which no other work of
art can hold. A printed surface is unlike a painted surface. The touch or press of ink
onto hand made paper can be so beautiful. For an artist, the process, basically one of
indirect mark making, provides avenues for creative experience and experiments which
might never otherwise be explored. The practice of working in collaboration with a master
printmaker is an entirely different discipline to working alone in a studio. Prints are
conceived in a unique way – it is almost like a sort of alchemy.
Sophie Hall
State of Art, April/May 2006
”How glad I am to now be working in partnership with a marvellous company called ARTIZAN
EDITIONS who are helping me to create limited editions of specially designed pictures,
which are printed in the gorgeous rich colours available to me through the screen
printing process. This is not a photography-based method of reproduction, but a
traditional, hands-on process requiring the superb skills available to me through ARTIZAN
EDITIONS, who do the same thing for Bridget Riley, and will now mean that my galleries
should be able to offer collectable pictures of mine for a more affordable price than the
paintings.”
Geoffrey Robinson, June 2005
“We use the term ‘fine art prints’, meaning the artist has chosen a particular medium
such as silkscreen, etching or lithograph, because of the aesthetic properties it brings
to the final product. Christies don’t sell reproductions: the artist has drawn directly
onto the film, etching plates or the lithograph stone, they’re unique in the sense the
image doesn’t exist as a painting, though they are created in a set edition size.”
Murray Macaulay – Christie’s 20th century print specialist
The Independent – Saturday 23rd April 2005
“I have worked with Sally Gimson and her team at Artizan Editions for many years. She is
a first class craftswoman with a fine colour sensibility. Sally will also give the time
and care it takes to get something right. I have always found it a pleasure and
stimulating to work with her.”
Bridget Riley, 17 September 2004
“Genuine original prints are conceived as prints and do not exist in any other form. A
painting exists in its own genuine original form that maybe reproduced - perhaps as a
poster – and much of our understanding of art history is based on such reproductions.
However, to market these as ‘limited edition prints’, signed and numbered within the fine
art convention is to prey on the naïve buyer. The intention seems to be to persuade
buyers that the reproduction is intrinsically valuable, when it may be virtually
worthless.”
Hilary Paynter, president of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers
Printmaking Today Winter 2006
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