Pine Island Lighthouse AP 1998 - Canada

Year1998

Hand Signed 

Condition Excellent 

Framed with Plexiglass 

Purchased fromArtist 1998 

Story / Additional InfoGraham visited with the assistance of the Canadian Coast Guard who took him to all 33 station on the coast of British Columbia. He as created prints for all the lighthouse.

The artist, now at 89 years, has released his collection of limited edition prints created over the past 26 years.

He realized the importance of the multiple imagery business but was not comfortable with the Photomechanical Reproductions and Giclée prints that proliferate the art market. They are facsimiles of real art forms serving the decorative art market. His preference is the fine art objective of hands-on prints that offer self-expression. These cannot be made exactly the same due to physical limitations, and so are true original prints. This directed him to the hand-made woodblock print imagery which Graham has been doing for the past 26 years.
 

Certificate of AuthenticityEasel Mate Studio 

LID156617

Graham Scholes - Canada

Art Brokerage: Graham Scholes Canadian Artist: b. 1933. Graham Scholes, born in 1933 in Toronto has lived in Montreal, Quebec, Barrie, Ontario and, since 1987, in Sidney, British Columbia. He is a known as an artist, an author as well as an art educator. He conducted workshops and seminars across Canada for 16 years, starting in 1977. In 1989 his book "Watercolor and How" was published by Watson Guptill, New York City, for world wide distribution and his work and techniques are featured in another Watson-Guptill book, entitled Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Watercolours. Graham interred the self-publishing field in 2016 writing a autobiography culminating with the latest art form of Mokuhanga, Japanese Woodblock Printmaking which he has focused on for the last 27years. Another book "Let There Be Light" focused on the work he created in the Mokuhanga medium. My mentor is master printmaker Noboru Sawai on woodblock printmaking. In 1993, this new medium inspired me to start a series of innovative prints of the British Columbia lighthouses. He needs to experience and have personal contact with his subjects, so with the co-operation of the Canadian Coast Guard, he has visited all lighthouses on the British Colombia coast in order to get the material necessary to represent these majestic beacons. The series of prints of the manned lighthouses has taken him 15 years to complete and is a critically acclaimed record of some of these manned beacons, that will soon be automated. Listings wanted.