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Mike Spencer

International Giclee Print Service


NEW EXCITING SERVICE JUST ADDED FOR ARTISTS

I own Spencer Print, a UK based Print Agency, & one of the many services I provide is a first class International Giclee Print service, with clients as far away as Canada & Jamaica. I am also providing a unique complimentary service, called Talking Product Videos. This enables me to take portraits & carichatures & make them talk on videos for internet pages, emailed newsletters, & mobile phones.

Here are 2 examples produced for one of the many online art groups I belong to.


GICLEE PRINT SERVICE

History


After spending over 10 years working as a Sales Executive & Estimator for various printers, I have now decided to put my acquired knowledge to better use. I formed my own printing agency in January 2008, Spencer Print. Over the years I have had many artists as clients. These include Graham Wilde, David Brindley, Doug Eaton, Glyn Whiting, Rosie Flood, Valerie Mclean, & many more. All these artists had digital reproductions of their work, whether as prints or post cards.

Doug Eaton's "The Wye from Coldwell Side"

As a Print Agency I am now able to offer artists a first class International Giclee Print service.

The latest client to use the "Giclee Print" service is top selling artist "Iris Ten Holder" from Ottawa, Canada.


Testimonial from Iris Ten Holder:
How does one print in another country? Well, if it is UK, then Mike is a good person to know. I was delighted to find Mike willing to execute my project and deliver it in the UK - I live in Canada . Mike was helpful every step of the way, from ordering, to transaction details, arranging for easy payment, and delivery of the finished product.

Specifications of Giclee Prints

Every print is individually colour balanced to give the very best results and we offer a range of fine quality media to ensure that the finished Giclee Print matches as close as possible to the original artwork.

In order to assist with the promotion of your Prints and original Artwork, all customers will be invited to exhibit their works on my associate's Website Gallery, completely free of charge.

Each artist will be listed together with a narrative of their work, contact details, Galleries selling their work and digital images of work that have been processed.

Giclee prints are large format reproductions made from original art or photographs printed on a variety of media, watercolour paper, 100% cotton canvas, photographic paper, and other material.

This type of art reproduction is becoming the new standard in the art industry, and is widely embraced for its quality by major museums, galleries, artists, publishers, and photographers.

Giclee prints have captured the imaginations of many artists and photographers because of its exceptional quality, longevity, and flexibility of printing-on-demand. The result is breathtaking.

A Giclee print is quite simply the closest replication of an original Artwork that is currently possible. Giclee (jee-clay) is a French word meaning "to spray" or "to squirt ink" originated in the 17th century. This method of printing was developed in 1989 as a digital method of fine art printing. Sometimes referred to as an "Iris Print" (after the original machine that produced the print).

It is the latest ground-breaking technological advancement of Fine Art Printing with a resolution higher than the traditional 4-color offset or lithography printing, and a wider colour range than a serigraph. All limited Edition Giclee prints are supplied with a Certificate of Authenticity.


Details of Service

My associate operates a wide-format printing bureau, which enables Fine Art reproduction of artwork up to 42" wide by 90" long.

All prints are produced in-house with superb digitally enhanced quality surpassing conventional printing.

Using the very latest inkjet technology, prints have vibrant colours and faithful reproduction.

A complementary scanning service is available from most formats.

This includes 35mm and medium format transparencies or negatives or original artwork if appropriate, and can of course work directly with digital files if already available.

SOME OF THE ARTISTS WHO HAVE USED THIS SERVICE

OVERSEAS

Samare Tansley (Kingston, Jamaica)

Samere Tansley was born in England, and since 1970 has made her home in Jamaica where she enjoys a successful career as a professional artist. The imagery in her painting has been greatly influenced by her move to the Caribbean. Her portraits of Jamaican women painted with meticulous intensity are highly sought after and her still-lifes reflect the abundance of the land and the sharp contrasts created by tropical sunlight.


Entering art school in England at fifteen years old, Samere trained extensively, eventually specializing in painting

She originally traveled to Jamaica to take up a teaching position and taught Art for ten years in High school and 16 years part-time in the Painting Dept. of the Edna Manley College for the Visual Arts in Kingston. She had her first solo show in 1975, five years after arriving in Jamaica.

The artist has exhibited extensively in Jamaica and the wider Caribbean and her work has been included in Jamaican Art shows in Miami, Los Angeles and New York - with solo shows in Bermuda and the United Kingdom and many in Jamaica. Since 1984 her paintings have formed part of the Permanent Collection of the National Gallery of Jamaica and hang in many private and corporate collections in the Caribbean the US and Europe.

UK

Rod Willis

Rod is a developing Midland's artist whose work is much sought after. He produces atmospheric oils and water-colours of landscapes, seascapes and local scenes capturing the varying affects of the sun. Local scenes include Witley Court, Stourport Basin, St. Mary's Church Bewdley, Arley, Severn Valley, Clee Hills amongst many others. .


Rod is from Bewdley and is a self-taught artist. He has been featured in local newspapers and has exhibited at Bewdley Museum and Bewdley Library. Other retail outlets include the Feathers Gallery (Ludlow), The Hop Pocket (Bishop's Frome), Newlyn Gallery (Cornwall) and various other outlets in the West Midlands, Cotswolds and Wales

Graham Maycock

Graham Maycock produces fabulous oil-paintings of African Wildlife.

Gary Walton

Gary Walton Art is best known for his Native Style paintings. One of his most popular is the"Oppusoccasio" (Occupations), which is offered in a variety of Giclee print sizes.

For further information please contact Mike Spencer at mike@spencerprint.co.uk or Skype on mspencer61.

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