Studio Update: My new ‘little print shop’ is now selling limited edition prints from November 2023.

1.Archival packaging

I wrap my prints with certificates of authenticity and drop them off to my fulfillment specialist provider Pack and Send. Between card sheets each print is separated by museum grade acid free glassine paper. One of my amulets sit over your invoice & certificate of authenticity. You can keep your print safely inside there for years following standard archiving principles.

Thanks everyone for your patience. With encouragement from VALA’s Editor, I decided five months ago to finally create a shop on my website to sell my art (& especially my VALA prints) direct from my studio. It’s online now and called, literally, ‘a little print shop’ open from November 1st. I’m so humbled and excited to finally be able to offer my prints to you direct from my Studio in a way that I’m very pleased with.

My visual essay comes out when The Blake Society launches its issue 4 of VALA journal in London on November 29th, 2023 (Blake’s birthday is the 28th). My visual essay is titled ‘A Field Manual for A Lost Soldier: William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell as a Course in Complexity’ and I wrote a 3,500 word essay. I painted four canvases for the essay which you can view in my art gallery Boy on Electric Scooter in Collapsing Universe Room 1 2023 or purchase a limited edition set of giclée prints in my ‘little print shop’.

On the laugh till you cry side of things:) it’s definitely taken more work and time than I anticipated, especially as I wanted to ensure the quality of every print I sell by working with people I trust who have consistently high production values. Our Terms and Conditions have also been updated as has the Privacy policy which is now GDPR compliant, since most of my audience is from EU, UK & the US.

2. Ilford Galerie Artist Textured paper 310gms

Each artist-signed print will have a 1.2cm white border depending on size, and be hand signed by me. The new paper stock is Ilford Galerie Artist Textured 310 GSM Archival Paper which evokes the textures in my paintings.

For this first collection of six giclee prints, I worked closely with my project manager Violeta at Fitzgerald Photo Imaging in North Perth. They are a family photography/imaging business in WA with 44 years’ experience in photography, digital imaging and fine art prints. We’ve been calibrating scans from screen to print and doing test strips before editioning and taking the time to ensure they look great!

My fulfillment provider (transport company) is Pack and Send in Subiaco, WA who have over 20 years experience in fine art transportation and who I have used for over 20 years’ moving my art around the country. They will liaise with all my customers, provide tracking and deal with Customs issues in different countries. Andy is great. I also met a wonderful photographer Juliette who understands artists and lets me ‘sit in’ on her photo scanning of my paintings, so I have great people around me.

The first theme is War & Peace

3. Small limited editions

My limited editions are always going to be in small runs of either 35. My customised 22k gold leaf ‘unique state’ sets are not technically ‘limited editions’ but are offered in smaller runs of 17 a year. I do this to only sell the volume of prints that I can comfortably manage to produce the best prints. You can watch my Instagram videos to learn a little about my custom order unique state prints.

Apart from my VALA four print set, I curated five other limited edition prints under a 2023 theme of War & Peace (mirroring VALA’s theme). They support my VALA essay by exploring the mechanics of the way we tell stories. I’ll keep adding to it over the next few months, and in early 2024 will add more prints under a different theme.

4. The Amulets

I include a small, rustic ceramic amulet to mark that your giclee prints come from my War & Peace editions (call it my filing system). They are anywhere between 2.5 & 3cm in diameter each & none are identical. I made them to evoke the Ancient World using Western Australian stoneware clay. Each is high-fired by ClayMake Studios and hand finished by me.

War & Peace Theme - November 2023

• 2023 - Four paintings I painted for VALA Issue 5 titled ‘A Field Manual for A Lost Soldier: William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell as a Course in Complexity’ which go with a 3500 word essay.

• 2021 - A painting titled ‘Australia a Prophecy’ from Critical Military Studies (2023) and my January 2023 Blake Society talk (read more).

• 2013 ‘The Assassination of Judy Garland’ explores both the truisms and myths of American exceptionalism using the narrative arc of singer-actress Judy Garland.

• 2011 - A painting titled ‘There is Nothing Like a Drone’ (pictured) from the 2012 international workshop I did at The University of Surrey which became a book cover for Kyle Grayson’s 2016 book Cultural Politics of Targeted Killing (Routledge, 2016, London).

• 2007 - A painting ‘Schrödinger's Requiem’, another quantum story about the way we tell stories, this time using the life of Diana Princess of Wales and the Many World’s Theory (Oxford version).

• 2005 - A painting titled ‘I Thought I Saw a Pussycat’, a lighter story about quantum storytelling which pays homage to Schrödinger's cat.

  [Updated 21st November 2023]