6. Who is your most famous artist that you have worked with and what were the
responses from your clients?
I’m not sure we could say exactly who the most famous is but we’ve worked with
artists ranging from Rubens and Canaletto to Giordano, Turner and Klimt. Each one
brings something very different to the product and appeals to a different customer
although we tend to find that our clients collect what we produce and have a
mixture of items from different artists.
7. You currently work with the National Gallery where you chose six (6) paintings
to produce your works. How did you select the paintings and what was the
process?
For our first project with The National Gallery, we worked closely with their team to
choose three specific paintings from their substantial collection of some of the
finest artworks in the world. The paintings had to first and foremost appeal to us
visually while having an interesting story we could convey to our customers. They
then had to suit the medium on which they were to be presented and so we slowly
identified those we wanted based on colour blends and the ability to work within a
square crop. We then designed unique borders for each square, each inspired by
the painting it was chosen to go with and utilising individual details seen in the work
such as the detailing on an arch or the colouring of a piece of clothing. Once
designs were finalised we worked with their expert colourist to ensure that the
sampling process gave us the closest possible match to the original painting before
producing our finished product. This is a difficult task when printing complicated
images with multiple colour blends onto silk but fully worth it when presented at the
end with a stunning hand rolled silk pocket square featuring an absolutely stunning
piece of art.