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Barns-Graham

Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (June 8, 1912, St Andrews, Fife - January 26, 2004) was one of the foremost British abstract artists, a member of the influential Penwith Society of Arts.

She attended Edinburgh College of Art from 1932 to 1936, and sporadically in 1937. Suffering from ill-health, on the recommendation of her tutor she went to St Ives, Cornwall, in 1940, quickly becoming part of a group of Hampstead-based modernists who had moved to Carbis Bay to escape the war. They included the painter Ben Nicholson and the sculptors Barbara Hepworth and Naum Gabo.

In 1949, the St Ives art community suffered an acrimonious split within its main organisation, the St Ives Society of Artists, Barns-Graham becoming a founder member of a breakaway group of abstract artists, the Penwith Society of Arts. In the same year she married the art critic David Lewis (they divorced, amicably, in 1960).

She travelled regularly over the next 20 years - Switzerland, Italy, Paris, and Spain. With the exception of a short teaching term at Leeds School of Art (1956 - 57) and three years in London (1960 - 63), she lived and worked in St Ives. From 1960, on inheriting a house outside St Andrews, she split her time between summers in Cornwall and winters in Scotland. Post-war, when St Ives had ceased to be a pivotal centre of modernism, her work and importance as an artist was sidelined, in part by an art-historical consensus that she had been only as a minor member of the St Ives school. In old age, however, she received belated recognition, receiving honorary doctorates from the University of St Andrews in 1992 and later from the universities of Plymouth and Exeter. In 1999 she was elected an honorary member of the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Scottish Watercolourists, and was awarded a CBE in 2001.

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Prints are created from a single original surface, known as a matrix. Common types of print matrices include: plates of metal, usually copper or zinc for engraving or etching, fabric plates for screen-printing, stone, used for lithography; blocks of wood for woodcuts and linoleum for linocuts. Works printed from a single plate create an edition, in modern times usually each signed and numbered to form a limited edition. Prints may also be published in book form, as artist's books. A single print could be the product of one or multiple techniques. The most common printing process is now digital printing. Digital Prints refers to editions of images created with a computer using drawings, other prints, photographs, light pen and tablet, and so on. These images can be printed to a variety of substrates including paper and cloth or plastic canvas.

Art prints
Printmaking takes on many forms and although when it comes to Art Prints it refers normally to printing on paper, other materials are used. The process involves producing multiples of the same piece of art, which is called a print. Art Prints on paper are always popular and are often framed to create a real focal point within a living or working space. Art prints on canvas have grown increasingly popular also. Stretched over stretcher bar, Canvas Art Prints are now commonly unframed and hang on a wall in their raw art form. Art Prints range dramatically in price depending on the artist, the paper used and the edition size. Open edition Art Prints are the cheapest. Limited Edition Art prints becoming more expensive depending on the artist and the size of the edition.

Floral prints
Flower pictures and Floral Prints remain some of the bestsellers in the world of art.
Some of the most famous artists including Monet and Picasso are all renowned for their Floral Prints. Such is the popularity of flowers, it is often Floral Prints that get the nod when decorating a room or office environment. Often it is not the artist but the flower itself that people have a preference to. Roses over Lilly's, Peonies over Daffodils. The colour of Floral Prints also take president with reds or green or indeed the 'seasons' colour of choice making an impact on art buyers decisions.

Canvas Art
The popularity of Canvas Art is down in no small part to the numerous interior design shows on television. These prime time trendsetters have used the personal touch of Canvas Art to great effect. The quality of Canvas Art differs like all art with some of the imported canvases from Japan inferior in quality to the giclee printed fine art canvases used on many limited edition reproduction canvas art.

Photos to canvas
Adding that personal touch to a room or gift idea has seen the Photos to canvas or photos2canvas service as it is sometimes known, rise and rise in popularity. With the ability to print your photo or image on to a canvas means that literally everyone can be an artist. Family photos to canvas are still the most popular, with wedding photos and holiday photos a close second. With the advent of digital photography, fewer photos are developed in the traditional way and people are looking for unique ways to display their shots. Black and white, sepia and colour Photos to canvas are all possible now as well as clever Warhol style canvases and cartoon art techniques.

Andy Warhol Prints
Andrew Warhola or Andy Warhol as he is better known, became famous worldwide for his take on popular culture in the 60's. Andy Warhol Prints are now sold all over the UK and indeed the world. These prints are more popular today than ever. Original Andy Warhol Prints are now some of the most sort after works in art. When the prints come up for auction they can fetch millions. Andy Warhol Prints come in all sizes and the estate works with Kind and McGaw closely producing the finest art prints for sale in the UK and USA. Some of the best selling Andy Warhol Prints are his Marilyn Monroe portraits and other pop icons including Elvis and of course Campbell's Soup Can. Andy Warhol Prints from the 60's revolves around American Pop Culture - Dollar bills, famous brands and celebrities. Music and film are integral to Warhol's work in the 80s but it is his screen-printing at 'the factory' that fans of his work still champion today.