Giclées (zhee-CLAY) are about providing affordable art for collectors. They are, essentially, digital prints from an original artwork. Giclées, being multiple prints, give the artist more exposure and an opportunity to sell more "popularly priced" art.

Please look at the prices for my giclées in comparison to my originals. Click here for the catalog.

IS THIS ANY WAY TO SELL GOOD ART?
In Rembrandt's time, engravers carefully copied the master's works by etching metal plates and printed black and white reproductions from them. This gave artists like Rembrandt a wider audience and supplemental income. Matisse and Picasso sold licenses to make "serigraphs" from their work. In fact, they created work intended to be printed by serigraph or lithograph in limited editions. Once again, the process has evolved. Today we can scan, edit and print art with the same basic equipment that our digital cameras and scanners, monitors and ink jet or laser printers do for us at work and at home.
The resolution (capture of detail in exceptionally fine focus) of the scans made from the original art is of superior quality. The 'industrial sized' printers that turn out the art on canvas or paper can produce a print the same size as the original (or larger if desired). The print that is produced is known as a giclée.
The inks used to make the print are archival. A UV spray finishes the print and protects it from damage from sunlight.

HOW DO I KNOW WHAT I'M GETTING?
The printed giclée artwork is often indistinguishable from the original. There are telltale signs if one knows where to look. Some artists do as I do, and sign the giclée near the original signature that is part of the giclée. Some artists sign and number their prints. Still others paint directly on the giclées to render them each different from the others. Other artists sell the prints right off the printer without change. Ask the artist or gallery from whom you buy. Giclées are not a secret.

Obviously, giclées satisfy both the artist and art collector. As they say, it's win-win.