http://blog.collierdobson.com Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:06:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As a company Collier & Dobson have built a strong reputation for wildlife art. Therefore for us to show another wildlife artist the work must be of the very highest quality. Needless to say Wendy Warren’s pastels certainly fitted the bill. From the moment we saw them it was clear that ... http://blog.collierdobson.com/2008/07/28/new-artist-wendy-warren/ We are always excited to welcome any new artist to our portfolio and Charlotte Lyon is no exception. Charlotte has a distinguished artistic background, her grandfather was principal of Edinburgh School of Art and her father a sculptor, yet this alone would not justify our enthusiasm for her work. It is her ... http://blog.collierdobson.com/2008/07/28/new-artist-charlotte-lyon/ Clive Meredith has been invited be part of the Artist in Residence programme at the Nature in Art Museum, near Gloucester. Artists are invited by Simon Trapnell, Direcotor of the museum, to be part of the programme - which runs every week from Januray until October. This is the 4th ... http://blog.collierdobson.com/2008/06/30/clive-meredith-invited-to-be-artist-in-residence-at-nature-in-art-museum/ We've just received word from Keith Sykes that he is intending to make it to this years CLA Game Fair no matter how the weather turns out. To that end he has been modifying caravan to deal with all eventualities. http://blog.collierdobson.com/2008/06/18/cla-game-fair-regardless-of-weather/ Image capture is the first step in the process of taking an original work of art and producing a limited edition print. We have recently invested significantly in our state of the art image capture studio. All of our image capture is performed on our new Cruse scanner. This large-format, ... http://blog.collierdobson.com/2008/06/06/fine-art-printing-services-image-capture/ There are two sides to the business here at Collier & Dobson Limited. Many of you will be aware of the limited edition prints and original works of art that we sell - but we also publish many limited editions ourselves and have very busy in-house printing and framing workshops. Our ... http://blog.collierdobson.com/2008/05/28/fine-art-printing-services/ Due to be unveiled in Monaco this Wednesday by HSH Prince Albert of Monaco. 'Tension, Timing, Triumph - Monaco 1971' is a collaboration between Jack Vettriano and Sir Jackie Stewart. Over the last twenty years, interest in Vettriano’s work has grown consistently and he has had sell-out exhibitions in Edinburgh, London, ... http://blog.collierdobson.com/2008/05/20/tension-timing-triumph-monaco-1971/ Some have tried to convince us of the demise of the limited edition print. However all the inexpensive originals in the world cannot convince me that I would prefer a cheap original of dubious provenance over a good quality limited edition, all things being equal. First and foremost the purchase ... http://blog.collierdobson.com/2008/01/30/the-limited-edition-print/ Hello and welcome to our blog! The aim of this blog is to have an open conversation with our customers about the things we are doing or plan to do with our business, our products and our artists - as well as anything else that takes our interest enough to write ... http://blog.collierdobson.com/2008/01/16/welcome/