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Limited Edition Giclée Gallery

Limited Edition Giclée Prints Nicky Stevenson @ Random Fish Limited Edition giclée archival prints are taken from Nicky's original paintings and are published by Chase Fine Art Publishers, Wadebridge, Cornwall, who she met at a trade fair. They were really impressed with Nicky's use of colour and sense of humour and she was really impressed with their ability to print her work so beautifully that even Nicky had to check she was not framing the originals! Giclée comes from the french word meaning little squirt, refering to the process of squirting fine droplets of ink onto archival paper. The print heads on an ink jet printer spray a very fine pattern of dots onto the paper that make up the final image. The expertise behind this revolution is a combination of very high quality scanning equipment and specialised digital wide format printers along with archival light fast inks and acid free papers. These specialist digital printers are now producing Limited Edition giclée prints of the highest quality that are now appearing in the finest galleries and museums. The giclée art process is believed to be the closest match to the original work that is technically possible. The papers and inks that are used give the prints an expected lightfast term of 75+ years. The Fine Art Trade Guild has declared that giclée printing has been decisively incorporated into the Guild Print Standard. Nicky and Chase Fine Art Publishers like to keep Nicky's limited edition archival giclée print to a run of one hundred and fifty, so there will never be more than that amount plus the original in the whole wide world. All limited edition prints are printed on 310gsm mould made natural line acid-free Hahnemuhle German etching paper. Prints are available: framed, mounted or rolled in a tube. Frames are lime waxed ash, with double white conservation board mounts. Mounted prints have a double white conservation board mount and are cellophane wrapped.