What is a Giclée?



















Giclée (pronounced "ghee-clay") is a French word that may be loosely translated as "spray of ink". The term has come to be used internationally for a type of high resolution digital art print made from an archival combination of ink and media. It is a recognized category of fine art reproduction such as serigraph or lithograph, and may be superior to all other types of prints for reproducing original works of art.

The process of making giclées is digital throughout, providing higher resolution and more variation of color than any other printmaking technique. Giclées may be made directly on a variety of authentic artist materials, such as watercolor paper and canvas. Unlike canvas transfers, which remove an image from the original paper medium and apply the image to canvas, giclées are created for and printed directly on canvas. There is therefore nothing lost, in fact the depth and richness of color that may be achieved in the process is comparable only to original works of art. Although the process of making giclées can be time intensive, it offers the artist the opportunity of much more control than is available in other techniques.

Roberta Wesley's Canvas Edition Giclées are produced individually under her personal supervision. The artist works in tandem with her son Jim Spear, manager of Wesley Gallery in Dripping Springs, Texas, to assure the quality and accuracy to Ms. Wesley's original works of art. No other publisher is permitted to produce Wesley Prints™ Giclées on Canvas.

Each canvas is numbered within a registered edition and accompanied by a hand signed certificate of authenticity. State of the art equipment and materials, combined with painstaking hand finishing, have resulted in canvas reproductions that are virtually in distinguishable from Roberta Wesley's original creations. Only highly stable and fully pigmented UV inks are used on these beautiful canvases to ensure that they will stand the test of time.