About Giclée Prints

Giclée (jhee-clay) - Is derived from the french verb gicler meaning to squirt or to spray.

Not to be confu se d with traditional printmaking proces se s such as etching, screen printing and block printing a Giclée print tends to be a high quality reproduction of another piece of work as is the ca se with the se Sussex images. Giclée is considered the world's finest method for reproducing original works of art and also for printing digitally created art.

Artists have been using commercial printing technology since it was first developed. When Albrect Durer produced etchings of his images, and u se d the prints as individual works of art, it was as outrageous as Andy Warhol or Roy Lichtenstein using color lithography to produce their (Pop Art) images  in the early 1960s.

The high quality of the process was noticed in the mid 1980s by pioneers of Giclée printing like musician and graphic artist Graham Nash, who then developed inks that expanded the color gamut and longevity of the print. Giclee printing became a viable fine arts medium becau se of their se minal work.

Despite a certain early resistance to Giclée prints in some areas of the art world, they are now accepted as a legitimate process amongst most collectors and galleries throughout the world.


The list of artists using Iris Giclée technology is diver se . It includes artists who have always
pioneered in the u se of new printing technologies like Robert Rauschenburg, who produced Iris prints for his Guggenheim New York show in 1997, artists associated with painting such as Chuck Clo se , traditional printmakers like Vija Celmins, and photographers including William Wegman, Harry Callahan, Joel Meyerowitz, and Lee Friedlander. The attraction of a new medium that
permits experimentation in the digital realm without compromising the quality of the resulting print is a powerful draw for artists of our time.

Numerous examples of giclée prints can be found in prestigious major galleries throughout the world including the Metropolitan Mu se um and the Mu se um of Modern Art in New York .
Recent auctions of giclee prints have fetched $10,800 for Annie Leibovitz, $9,600 for Chuck Clo se , and $22,800 for Wolfgang Tillmans

For our prints we u se archive quality Lyson Fotonic inks and Hahnemule 308gsm Rag paper  which gives fade & color shift resistance of over 90 years under average indoor light conditions. The images are scanned directly from the original paintings avoiding the necessity of an intermediate photographic image being made.