The Christmas Card sales are over for another year, and 2012 starts in a few hours.
We are really looking forward to working with our painter and photographer friends in 2012. Happy New Year to you all!
Keeping you up to date with what's happening with Norfolk Art Place
Saturday 31 December 2011
Wednesday 30 November 2011
It's almost December ...
Norfolk Art Place can help you with preparations for Christmas!
- Our 2011 range of Christmas cards, specially selected from our original photographs and paintings.
- Christmas Cards made from your paintings or photographs - very good value and high quality.
- Canvas prints from your paintings/photographs, at trade prices
- Fine art quality prints in all sizes up to 44 inches wide, from your paintings/photographs.
For details please see our website at www.NorfolkArtPlace.com
Good luck with your preparations, and please get in touch if we can help you with any of our products or services.
- Our 2011 range of Christmas cards, specially selected from our original photographs and paintings.
- Christmas Cards made from your paintings or photographs - very good value and high quality.
- Canvas prints from your paintings/photographs, at trade prices
- Fine art quality prints in all sizes up to 44 inches wide, from your paintings/photographs.
For details please see our website at www.NorfolkArtPlace.com
Good luck with your preparations, and please get in touch if we can help you with any of our products or services.
Wednesday 23 November 2011
Artists and Makers Fair, Norwich - this weekend!
The Artists and Makers Christmas Fair in Norwich is coming up this weekend! Please come and see us if you're in the city on Saturday or Sunday. We'll have lots of items for sale including canvas prints, mounted and framed prints, original artwork and great value greetings cards, including Christmas cards. More details on the earlier blog post at this link.
Wednesday 9 November 2011
We found this video of Norfolk
We came across a link to this video, and wanted to share it. A very evocative combination of video and stills, showing the beauty of Broadland.
http://youtu.be/4y_Ova5fHNE
http://youtu.be/4y_Ova5fHNE
Sunday 6 November 2011
2011 Christmas Cards Released For Order
We are pleased to announce our range of Christmas cards for 2011. These are hand made cards from original artwork, both paintings and photographs. They are very good value for the quality you will receive, starting at 90p per card for a pack of 10.
You will find the details at http://www.norfolkartplace.com/christmas2011
You will find the details at http://www.norfolkartplace.com/christmas2011
Thursday 3 November 2011
See us at Norfolk Artists & Makers Christmas Fair, Norwich
We're at the Norfolk Artists and Makers Christmas Fair in Norwich.
Venue: St Margarets Church, St Benedicts Street, Norwich
Dates:
Saturday 26th November, 10am until 5pm
Sunday 27th November from 10am until 4pm
If you're in the area, please come and have a look at some of our products and have a chat.
You can find details of some of the other exhibitors - many excellent artists from around the region - at this link.
Venue: St Margarets Church, St Benedicts Street, Norwich
Dates:
Saturday 26th November, 10am until 5pm
Sunday 27th November from 10am until 4pm
If you're in the area, please come and have a look at some of our products and have a chat.
You can find details of some of the other exhibitors - many excellent artists from around the region - at this link.
Wednesday 2 November 2011
Norfolk Art Place Website Update
The website has had a lot of pages added, including pricing information for service to artists and photographers, more detail about our approach to the services we provide, and more information about greetings cards. Please visit the site at www.NorfolkArtPlace.com, and keep coming back - it's a work in progress.
Remember you can order canvas prints and greetings cards from us, from your own photos or paintings or from Norfolk Art Place artists.
Remember you can order canvas prints and greetings cards from us, from your own photos or paintings or from Norfolk Art Place artists.
Monday 31 October 2011
Is photography art?
Of course it can be - depending upon the photography! This isn't the time for a detailed essay (maybe one day!). In the USA, photography has been a collectible and recognised art form since the 19th century. We think it is fair to say that the art "establishment" in the UK has been slow to catch up, but this article shows how four leading establishments are promoting and curating photography. Click here to read the article.
Wednesday 26 October 2011
Landscape Photographer of the Year 2011 - Winners
The winners have been announced, and the winning images can be found at this link.
Tuesday 25 October 2011
Enjoying quality prints - a missing experience?
By Bruce Cairns
One consequence of the internet age is that photographs are everywhere. Social networking sites are full of photos. Smartphones can produce photos and upload them to the web with incredible ease and speed. Old photos are scanned and uploaded to be enjoyed by many people online, rather than left hidden in an old album.
This is all wonderful. However, there is a downside. People who have grown up in this digital age, or have become used to it, often have no idea what a good photographic print looks like. They are used to low resolution web images at 72 ppi (pixels per inch). When images are printed, they are often sent to mass market labs, and printed at a lowest common denominator (LCD) level of quality, with detail, colour, tone and contrast all fatally compromised. These labs can produce small (6x4", 7x5") prints in a way that look superficially reasonable, but compare a larger machine made print to a hand made one and you will immediately see that it is like comparing instant coffee to real - in that case, one is coffee, the other isn't!
Many people would be astonished at the detail and beauty that a good, expertly made print can achieve. There is also a huge satisfaction in having a large print and exhibiting it (rather than buying a small, cheap one and putting it in a drawer). The quality of a large canvas print can also be stunning - but again they have to be printed and finished expertly, and not by an "LCD" mass market lab.
Of course we would like you to ask Norfolk Art Place to do your high quality printing for you; but even if you don't, please do yourself a favour - make a decision to wean yourself off the 72 ppi web image, and discover the beauty of a good print!
One consequence of the internet age is that photographs are everywhere. Social networking sites are full of photos. Smartphones can produce photos and upload them to the web with incredible ease and speed. Old photos are scanned and uploaded to be enjoyed by many people online, rather than left hidden in an old album.
This is all wonderful. However, there is a downside. People who have grown up in this digital age, or have become used to it, often have no idea what a good photographic print looks like. They are used to low resolution web images at 72 ppi (pixels per inch). When images are printed, they are often sent to mass market labs, and printed at a lowest common denominator (LCD) level of quality, with detail, colour, tone and contrast all fatally compromised. These labs can produce small (6x4", 7x5") prints in a way that look superficially reasonable, but compare a larger machine made print to a hand made one and you will immediately see that it is like comparing instant coffee to real - in that case, one is coffee, the other isn't!
Many people would be astonished at the detail and beauty that a good, expertly made print can achieve. There is also a huge satisfaction in having a large print and exhibiting it (rather than buying a small, cheap one and putting it in a drawer). The quality of a large canvas print can also be stunning - but again they have to be printed and finished expertly, and not by an "LCD" mass market lab.
Of course we would like you to ask Norfolk Art Place to do your high quality printing for you; but even if you don't, please do yourself a favour - make a decision to wean yourself off the 72 ppi web image, and discover the beauty of a good print!
Friday 21 October 2011
A photography magazine for the artist - OnLandscape
By Bruce Cairns
The market for photographic magazines is overcrowded. There are many titles, competing for the attention of a large and enthusiastic audience, from beginner to professional. That audience has a huge range of photographic interests, and the publishers all have to keep their advertisers happy. Most photographic magazines therefore devote a lot of attention to new equipment. The themes come round month by month and year by year - black and white and landscape being two of the favourites. Even magazines targeted at advanced photographers or the professional market still have to cover a broad church. A pro magazine, for example, has to devote a lot of material to the portrait and wedding market and to studio photographers, because those represent a large proportion of its readership.
As a photographer whose interests lie in the fields of landscape, fine art and abstract, I have never found a magazine that is full of material that interests me - I have always dipped into the content and ignored most of it, and as a result had stopped buying photographic magazines. I was wasting my money.
That changed in 2010, when I met Tim Parkin, who, with Joe Cornish, had just started an online photography magazine. OnLandscape (originally Great British Landscapes/LandscapeGB when it launched) is different. For one thing, as the title suggests, it is aimed at landscape photographers. With Joe behind it, OnLandscape inevitably concentrates on the contemplative and artistic side of photography, rather than the purely technical. It focuses on the creative side of our craft, not on the equipment (although equipment certainly features). The mission statement is set out in Joe's introduction, (which I recommend you read - the link is at the end of this article) - "OnLandscape hopes to provide a focus for anyone with an enthusiasm and love for photographing landscape and for what follows that process".
Tim Parkin - described by Joe as "an unreconstructed IT wizard (geek?) who has the wherewithal to create something as complicated as an interactive website" - has an energetic interest in all sorts of artistic and scientific matters that lie at the heart of photography but are seldom drawn out and explored. As well as Joe and Tim, there are regular interviews with photographers, well known and relatively unknown, and regular articles by David Ward to help us think more deeply about photography. Much of the content is in video form, and it is incredibly useful, for example, to have a trip round a gallery with the presenters, or to see a photographer on video discussing some of their work in great detail. Reading an article about a photographer, you can see their work illustrating the article and then click straight through to their web site. What paper magazine can do that?
Some of the content is free. Much of the more interesting content (and which has cost the most time and money to put together) requires a subscription. You can pay £3 per issue (every 2 weeks), £2.50 per issue if you subscribe for 6 months, and £2 per issue if you subscribe for a year. That is amazing value compared to the magazines you buy in the newsagent. There are other advantages. Your house doesn't get cluttered up with piles of magazines; no trees die in its making; you can always find the content that you remember seeing a few months ago; and the magazine is interactive, with readers commenting on articles and having a dialogue with each other and the writer of the relevant article. Readers can suggest ideas for future content, and Tim follows these up. OnLandscape is genuinely shaped by its readership.
I am not knocking traditional photo magazines. They have an eager, large and eclectic market, and they cover many subjects that do not preoccupy OnLandscape and its readership. But this online magazine is something very different, new and exciting.
I heartily recommend OnLandscape to any photographer with an interest in landscape - just go to the site and have a poke around some of the free content, and if you like it, sign up! It's also worth following the links to OnLandscape on Facebook and Twitter, and liking and following respectively. Because it is such an interactive way of producing a magazine, you will be kept up to date, with links straight to the content.
By way of disclosure, I have no connection with OnLandscape, other than being a subscriber and knowing Tim and Joe. I have, however, at last found a photography magazine that is aimed at me!
Bruce Cairns
Links
Introduction to OnLandscape by Joe Cornish
OnLandscape home page
OnLandscape Twitter page
OnLandscape Facebook page
Joe Cornish
Bruce Cairns - www.brucecairns.com
The market for photographic magazines is overcrowded. There are many titles, competing for the attention of a large and enthusiastic audience, from beginner to professional. That audience has a huge range of photographic interests, and the publishers all have to keep their advertisers happy. Most photographic magazines therefore devote a lot of attention to new equipment. The themes come round month by month and year by year - black and white and landscape being two of the favourites. Even magazines targeted at advanced photographers or the professional market still have to cover a broad church. A pro magazine, for example, has to devote a lot of material to the portrait and wedding market and to studio photographers, because those represent a large proportion of its readership.
As a photographer whose interests lie in the fields of landscape, fine art and abstract, I have never found a magazine that is full of material that interests me - I have always dipped into the content and ignored most of it, and as a result had stopped buying photographic magazines. I was wasting my money.
That changed in 2010, when I met Tim Parkin, who, with Joe Cornish, had just started an online photography magazine. OnLandscape (originally Great British Landscapes/LandscapeGB when it launched) is different. For one thing, as the title suggests, it is aimed at landscape photographers. With Joe behind it, OnLandscape inevitably concentrates on the contemplative and artistic side of photography, rather than the purely technical. It focuses on the creative side of our craft, not on the equipment (although equipment certainly features). The mission statement is set out in Joe's introduction, (which I recommend you read - the link is at the end of this article) - "OnLandscape hopes to provide a focus for anyone with an enthusiasm and love for photographing landscape and for what follows that process".
Tim Parkin - described by Joe as "an unreconstructed IT wizard (geek?) who has the wherewithal to create something as complicated as an interactive website" - has an energetic interest in all sorts of artistic and scientific matters that lie at the heart of photography but are seldom drawn out and explored. As well as Joe and Tim, there are regular interviews with photographers, well known and relatively unknown, and regular articles by David Ward to help us think more deeply about photography. Much of the content is in video form, and it is incredibly useful, for example, to have a trip round a gallery with the presenters, or to see a photographer on video discussing some of their work in great detail. Reading an article about a photographer, you can see their work illustrating the article and then click straight through to their web site. What paper magazine can do that?
Some of the content is free. Much of the more interesting content (and which has cost the most time and money to put together) requires a subscription. You can pay £3 per issue (every 2 weeks), £2.50 per issue if you subscribe for 6 months, and £2 per issue if you subscribe for a year. That is amazing value compared to the magazines you buy in the newsagent. There are other advantages. Your house doesn't get cluttered up with piles of magazines; no trees die in its making; you can always find the content that you remember seeing a few months ago; and the magazine is interactive, with readers commenting on articles and having a dialogue with each other and the writer of the relevant article. Readers can suggest ideas for future content, and Tim follows these up. OnLandscape is genuinely shaped by its readership.
I am not knocking traditional photo magazines. They have an eager, large and eclectic market, and they cover many subjects that do not preoccupy OnLandscape and its readership. But this online magazine is something very different, new and exciting.
I heartily recommend OnLandscape to any photographer with an interest in landscape - just go to the site and have a poke around some of the free content, and if you like it, sign up! It's also worth following the links to OnLandscape on Facebook and Twitter, and liking and following respectively. Because it is such an interactive way of producing a magazine, you will be kept up to date, with links straight to the content.
By way of disclosure, I have no connection with OnLandscape, other than being a subscriber and knowing Tim and Joe. I have, however, at last found a photography magazine that is aimed at me!
Bruce Cairns
Links
Introduction to OnLandscape by Joe Cornish
OnLandscape home page
OnLandscape Twitter page
OnLandscape Facebook page
Joe Cornish
Bruce Cairns - www.brucecairns.com
Thursday 20 October 2011
Canvas prints from your photos at trade prices
Our great canvas print offer has just gone live.
Our core specialism is to provide services to painters and photographers, including producing fine art cards, prints and canvases. Because of this, we have a large, professional wide format printer - an Epson 9890. The printer can print on all sorts of media, including canvas, on rolls up to 44 inches wide. Our products include high quality canvas prints, for sale on our website and for our painter and photographer clients.
In the period leading up to Christmas, we are happy to offer to produce canvases for you from your own photos, at trade prices.
Canvases make great Christmas presents.
Please have a look at the offer on our website at http://www.norfolkartplace.com/canvasoffer
Our core specialism is to provide services to painters and photographers, including producing fine art cards, prints and canvases. Because of this, we have a large, professional wide format printer - an Epson 9890. The printer can print on all sorts of media, including canvas, on rolls up to 44 inches wide. Our products include high quality canvas prints, for sale on our website and for our painter and photographer clients.
In the period leading up to Christmas, we are happy to offer to produce canvases for you from your own photos, at trade prices.
Canvases make great Christmas presents.
Please have a look at the offer on our website at http://www.norfolkartplace.com/canvasoffer
Our printer
This is our Epson 9890 wide format printer, in our studio in Norfolk.
It can produce very high quality print on all kinds of media, including fine art papers and canvas, up to 44" wide. The other dimension is limited only by the length of the media roll, and these are up to 30 meters!
We also use a smaller (A2) Epson 3880 printer for smaller greetings cards, etc. Both printers use the same Epson K8 Ultrachrome ink set.
It can produce very high quality print on all kinds of media, including fine art papers and canvas, up to 44" wide. The other dimension is limited only by the length of the media roll, and these are up to 30 meters!
We also use a smaller (A2) Epson 3880 printer for smaller greetings cards, etc. Both printers use the same Epson K8 Ultrachrome ink set.
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