Fine Art Photo Etchings and Hand Printed Lithographs
Our methods offer you the opportunity to own truly unique individual prints of your wedding images. We offer monochrome and full colour printing using traditional techniques mainly from the 19th Century or earlier.
Almost all of our printing requires the use of very basic hand operated presses, with printing plates made, inked and printed by hand. The nature of each process ensures that every print from a plate possesses subtle differences. We live in an age where we are bombarded by imagery, and these prints offer you total artistic individuality.
Etching & PhotoEtching
We etch the image into a copper plate using a salt which reacts to etch a “tooth”, the ink is held in the tooth in varying depths creating the range of tone in the print.
The plate is inked by hand and the excess removed, again by hand, and then placed against the paper and rolled through a press resembling a large clothes mangle. The plate is embossed into the paper transferring the image.
Lithography & PhotoLithography
The image is developed onto a stone or a plate, the image is inked by hand in such a way to take advantage of the natural properties of oil and water, and printed directly or offset to the paper.
To obtain a full colour print, several plates are made and printed in exact registration, each carrying a different colour.
Please contact us for full details on how we can use your wedding images to create unique works of art for your wall.