What is a "Gilcee" print?

Giclée printing has become a highly visible and rapidly growing segment of the fine art and photography world. In the art publishing field, inkjet prints have come to be called "giclée" prints. Giclée (pronounced "jhee-CLAY") is a French word that means "squirt or spurt". In this usage, giclée alludes to the digitally-controlled inkjet nozzles of a printer which precisely "squirt" millions of microscopic droplets of ink per second onto
the media in place to form the image. A typical 22 x 30 inch Giclée image is made up of well over one billion individual ink droplets!

Literally dozens of museums in the U.S. and abroad have either mounted exhibitions of giclées or purchased them for their permanent collections. These include The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), The Museum of Fine Art (Boston), The Guggenheim (New York), The National Gallery for Women in the Arts (DC), The Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), and the Smithsonian Institution Libraries (New York), among others.

What is a "Mono" Print?

All prints are mono edition prints. Mono prints are Monoprints are known as the most painterly method among the printmaking techniques.

A monoprint is often regarded as a non-editionable kind of print and is essentially a printed painting.

The characteristic of this method is that no two prints are alike.

The beauty of this medium is also in its spontaneity and its combination of printmaking, painting and drawing media.

Retail prices depend entirely upon the size of the printed image requested, but are roughly .35 cents per square inch on watercolor paper, or .40 cents per square inch on canvas, with a minimum cost of $45.00, not including shipping.

All prints come with a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist and the printmaker, stating when the print was created, and which paper and inks were used. This certificate ensures that this image has not been reproduced without permission of the artist.

Please feel free to contact Christine with any questions or concerns about these prints, and I will be happy to explain further and/or give you a price on a particular image and size.