Marlies hails from New York in the USA where he works as an illustrator and has work appearing on television, billboards and in print. All of his works are available as signed and numbered limited edition prints printed on archival watercolour paper with deckled edges. The process used for the prints is known as Iris/Giclee is the highest quality print available today. The word Giclée is a French word meaning 'to squirt', which is what an inkjet printer does. The process is digital printmaking with an iris printer that uses minute droplets of ink to create prints that cannot be duplicated by other printing techniques. Because there is no visible dot screen pattern the resulting image has all of the subtle tonalities or the original art. Each dot may have over 4 billion possible colours! This produces exceptional museum quality prints.

In the past, trying to have my art reproduced usually resulted in a shortened lifespan and massive hair loss for the printer. My colours were almost impossible to reproduce because I use such subtle glazes in my paintings. With this new technology the printer can achieve a true reproduction of my original in any size from 1" (for those with very small rooms) to 46", printed on the same archival watercolour paper I use for my original painting. The new inks used in Iris printing have the same longevity as the watercolour paints I use in my paintings. This highest quality printing is made affordable for a collector because each limited edition print is printed on demand.

"Life"

"Oranges"

"Kyoto"

Marlies Merk Najaka