Late flowering at Sugahill Cafe.

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A new exhibition of watercolour paintings at Sugahill cafe, 250 Kirkdale, until 29 October.

Anne Harrison is a local artist, a retired school teacher who has taken up watercolour painting, enjoying its flow and subtlety. Her work is inspired by plant life, its patterns, textures and colours. Working quite loosely she creates still life, often including flowers.

Anne has been a finalist in the EAC Art Awards for the past two years and her work has been exhibited at the Bankside Gallery in London (2009) and at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists (2011). Her work has also been exhibited in the Banqueting Hall, Whitehall, London during the CPSA annual art exhibition. This is Anne’s first solo exhibition.

All work for sale at this Sugahill exhibition consists of limited edition giclée prints on quality cotton rag paper using fade-resistant, pigment based, archival inks.

All Anne’s original watercolours are for sale. Please contact her at anneharrisonlondon@hotmail.com


Giclée prints.

The word "giclée" was created by Jack Duganne, a print maker, in the late 1980’s who wanted a name for the new type of prints they were producing on large format high resolution industrial ink-jet printer they had adapted for fine art printing.

He was specifically looking for a word that would not have the negative connotations of "ink-jet" or "computer generated". To make the word descriptive of ink-jet technologies he based it on the French language word "le gicleur" meaning "nozzle", or more specifically "gicler" meaning "to squirt, spurt, or spray”.

[Wikipedia: Harald Johnson's book, Mastering Digital Printing, Second Edition.
Chapter 1 What's In a Name: The True Story of "Giclée".]