Artist Spotlight: Harriet Hoult
Harriet Hoult has become a regular visitor to the Fine Art Solutions studios over the last couple of years. An abstract artist, based in London, the style of her work is fascinating to see and work with. Often featuring a variety of bright colours and heavy textures, capturing the feel of these originals is a challenging process, but one that gives a fantastic reproduction when achieved. The thick paint marks, string and other coarse fabrics create an incredibly tactile result. When balanced...
Read MoreArtist Spotlight: Khadeeja Sheikh
Khadeeja Sheikh is a botanical artist based in Surbiton, Surrey, with a wonderful array of techniques and styles. Having grown up locally in Wimbledon and trained as an architect at Cambridge University, Khadeeja subsequently did a Masters diploma at the Bartlett School of Architecture. She soon became disenchanted with the CAD based nature of the work and briefly moved into drafting for film set production before taking a career break to have children. Recently trained as a yoga teacher and...
Read MoreArtist Spotlight: Tracey Thornton
Tracey is a London-based mixed-media artist with a passion for family, colour and natural beauty. Her current Butterfly Series is inspired by her two young boys and the simple pleasures in life and she uses butterflies in meadow settings to convey situation, emotion and movement. The resulting work is full of vibrancy and joy and depicts moments in life that many relate to. Visit Tracey’s website – www.traceythorntonartist.com to view the current series where she explains the...
Read MoreDigital Restoration
One of the most regular things we deal with at Fine Art Solutions is people bringing us photographs of family and loved ones. These are quite often from before the age of digital photography and social media. This gives these photographs huge significance and immeasurable emotional value as there are no readily available backups or replacements. Given how old some of these can be and the variety of conditions in which they have been kept, many may have deteriorated, faded or been damaged....
Read MoreCertificates of Authenticity and Holograms
The Fine Art Solutions’ Certificate of Authenticity is designed to provide our clients with added security in the reproduction of artwork or photographs and to reduce the risk of forgery. The text and layout of the certificate can be created individually, to reflect the piece of art and yourself as the artist. Often, clients will then add the certificate to the back of a mounted or framed print when sold. Each certificate is made of Hahnemühle’s premium, deckle edged, mould made...
Read MoreHand Deckled Edges
Hand deckled edges are a wonderfully informal and artistic finish to fine art prints. Our craftsmen can produce a beautiful deckled edge that has been torn by hand to give a unique feathered finish, which has the look of a high-quality mould made paper (which was the term originally given to genuine, hand-crafted papers). Fine Art Solutions achieve this effect by using heavy weight fine art papers, such as Hahnemühle’s German Etching or Photo Rag papers. When this is torn it leaves...
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