Picasso watches over the Giclee department

Way back in the early 1970’s when I was a student at the Ruskin School of Drawing, Oxford University, Picasso was my God. As all gods have eventually to go to heaven I painted a small diptych of Picasso at the gates of heaven with one of his earlier wives and his beloved dog.
This diptych has remained unframed as one of my few surviving paintings of this period. It still stands today in the old barn’s ventilation hole (now blocked up in the Giclee studio) as a testimony to the artistic endeavours still prevailing in the gilcee department. To quote Picasso “I do not search I find”
I hope your searches over the internet have found this nonesense, required by modern search engines, to be be entertaining and informative.
I often look at the diptych and try to imagine just what Picasso would make of the creative opportunities offered by giclee printing. Given a computer programme and canvas on the printing machine, what might this great artist have produced?

Giclee printing is primarily to reproduce other media such as oil paintings, pastels and water colours. Too few artists use it as a creative media in its own right.

We at Abacus offer open studio facilities to creative artists to print up to 64 inches wide - on rolls up to 12 meters long. This continues our ethos of using print as a creative media in its own right not just one of reproduction.

Now you have found us, stick with us, we look forward to you order - seek no more!