With its brand new video series, ARTI’TEACH by ARCHES®, the Arches paper mill offers you the chance to delve into the secrets of its famous papers.
In these videos our presenter, Céline Petit-phar, will be talking to you about our papers with all the
enthusiasm and desire to share her passion for art that characterise her.
Why number 88? 88, which we find in the watermark of this ARCHES® art publishing…
What does the acronym BFK (Rives) stand for?
A small family concern created in 1787 in Rives, in the French Department of Isère, the Blanchet de Rives paper mill became Blanchet Frères & Kléber in 1820 when brothers Augustin and Victor Blanchet joined forces with Jean-Antoine Didier Kléber.
Among the ARCHES® employees who make our fine art and printing papers, there are some who are also artists themselves! One of them is Sandrine Parisot, who works in the converting shops and whom we have interviewed.
Ann Grebel Aroyo-Villanueva, better known by her artist’s name Ann GV, is a modern realist artist living in Masbate Province, Philippines. She creates fine original artworks in watercolour on archival papers, paints in oil or acrylic on canvas and uses both dry and wet media for illustrations. Nature and people are her greatest sources of inspiration. Ann enjoys expressing the essence of nature and people with landscapes, stunning seascapes, tropical animals and flora, as well as addressing different topical social issues with strong compositions. She aspires to share what truly matters in life through her art.
The Serio Press studio has developed an experimental and patented destructive printing method. The technique consists of “destroying” the medium upon which the work is printed, using a controlled procedure to create an interplay of textures.
It’s art in motion. To grasp that, all you have to do is sit or stand – it doesn’t matter which – with your eyes riveted on one of my pictures. Quickly, sometimes very quickly, the world tips out of kilter. Some views will just be impressed by the exercise in patience that it took for the artist to invent these shapes repeated ad infinitum and which, taken together, give the work a whole other dimension.
Franco-Cuban artist Cristina Escobar was named winner of the DDESSINPARIS Prize 2024. This prize offers her the opportunity to go and work in a month-long creative residency at the Villa Saint-Louis Ndar in Senegal in 2025.
Zeng Tianfu, who as an artist would go under the name T’ang Haywen, was born on 20 December 1927 in Xiamen in Fujian province, China. He arrived in France in 1948 and was one of the second generation of Chinese artists who emigrated there after the Second World War.
THE OF A GREAT BRAND SIGNATURE In 1492, master papermakers were already making paper by hand in the Arches paper mill located in the Vosges region of France. The Arches
