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ARCHES® HISTORY WITHIN HISTORY
The year 1492, an emblematic date for ARCHES®, for it is the year our paper mill was founded in the village of Arches in the Vosges region of France. At the time, France and the entire world were in the midst of a period of great effervescence marked by major historical events like the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus.
Jeff Carter, a big-hearted artist
Jeff Carter is a self-taught artist who began to draw and paint for pleasure about seven years ago. He took watercolour lessons locally and online and watched tutorials on YouTube. But he was not progressing as he hoped. He then started sketching subjects he liked, to immortalise his memories by drawing the places he visits using mixed media techniques: felt tip pen and washes.
Peter Reuterberg, artist by nature
Peter Reuterberg is a Swedish artist originally from Hjärtum, in the Bohuslän inlands. After studying art and design in Gothenburg, he graduated with a master’s in Fine Arts. Peter has devoted his entire life to painting and sculpture. Watercolour is the technique that captivates him the most. The elusive power inherent in the watercolour pigments released when they are mixed with water represents a challenge that he willingly embraces.
Matty Burnham, optimistic illustrator
Matty Burnham is an English ink and watercolour illustrator. Although originally from Cumbria, he now lives near Leeds in Yorkshire. The region’s beautiful landscapes are a significant source of inspiration for him. He also loves visiting less familiar areas such as the incredible Northumbrian castles or the lochside cottages of the Highlands, and illustrating them.
The luminous watercolours of Christian Koivumaa
Christian Koivumaa was born in 1978 in Northern Sweden and grew up there. Very quickly he opted for a sporting career, in karate; After succeeding brilliantly on the international stage, injury forced him into early retirement. This marked the opening of a new chapter in his life as he joined the art world with the same commitment that had earned him his success in sport.
The Picto Fashion Photography Award / Paolo Roversi Exhibition
The Picto Fashion Photography Award ceremony was held on 5 June last at the Palais Galliera in Paris, which was also hosting an exhibition dedicated to Paolo Roversi. The guests attending the award ceremony were also able to visit the exhibition of the renowned photographer’s work.
ARCHES Platine – das ideale Papier für alternative fotografische Druckverfahren
ARCHES® Platine besitzt alle notwendigen Eigenschaften für die Herstellung großartiger Fotodrucke mit alternativen Verfahren. Um optimale Ergebnisse zu erzielen, erfordern diese Verfahren die Verwendung von Papier höchster Qualität. Das ARCHES® Platine Papier ist DIE Referenz für anspruchsvolle Fotografen und Drucker weltweit.
Julie-Victoire Daubié, the first woman to pass the baccalaureate
Julie-Victoire Daubié was born in 1824 at the Manufacture Royale de Bains-les Bains in the Vosges region of France. She would become the first woman in France to be awarded the baccalaureate. This is why the French Ministry of Culture has granted this site the “Maisons des Illustres” label which recognises historic houses which preserve and transmit the memory of men and women who made distinguished contributions to the political, social and cultural history of France.
Joan Coch, a prolific and passionate artist
Joan Coch is a Spanish artist with innate artistic skills. As a child, he already showed astonishing creative abilities, which he would go on, on to continually develop throughout his career as a professional artist in different fields: architecture, interior decoration, visual arts, painting.
FIRST ATLAS OF THE UNITED STATES OF ACID BY DIDIER MUTEL
For centuries engraving and etching were the methods used to produce maps and atlases. But what we have here is not a simple map of the real world – instead we have a utopian version of a country characterised by a reality full of hope and humorous fiction.
ARTI’VIEW by ARCHES Youri Messen-Jaschin, an illusionist with immeasurable talent!
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.
Steve Mitchell, passionate about watercolours
Steve Mitchell has been drawing since he was a child. When he was six, his mother gave him a “step-by-step” drawing book – and a passion for drawing was born. When he was about ten, he started to try out different media like graphite and charcoal, and gradually started to perfect his technique.
T’ang Haywen exhibition at the Musée Guimet
An exceptional exhibition devoted to T’ang Haywen will be running from 17 June 2024 at the Musée Guimet (the National Museum of Asian Arts) in Paris. Entitled “Un peintre chinois à Paris” (A Chinese Painter in Paris), it reveals the tremendous talent of a great Chinese artist and contemporary of Zao Wou-Ki.
European Artistic Crafts Days
Didier Clad is an Alsatian artist who has won several awards, including the Métiers d’Arts prize for copperplate engraving in 2000 – Sema, Paris. He is a plastic artist, intaglio printmaker and publisher of artists’ books, and he has been selected by the Institut National des Métiers d´Art to take part in the 2024 event.
ARCHES® Aquarelle ist das beste Papier für Aquarellmalerei
In den Fachgeschäften finden Sie eine große Auswahl an Künstlerpapieren. Die Wahl des richtigen Papiers ist entscheidend, damit Ihre Aquarellbilder gelingen und Sie bei Ihren Techniken nicht eingeschränkt sind. Hier erklären wir Ihnen, warum das ARCHES® Aquarelle Papier die beste Wahl ist.
Luke Adam Hawker, an artist connected to his world
Luke Adam Hawker is a professional artist based in Surrey, England. He studied Interior Architecture and Design at Nottingham Trent University and worked as a designer in London before becoming a full-time artist in 2015. He has a passion for drawing on location and is fascinated by the world around him, using art as a way of connecting with places and people.
21st Sarcelles International Engraving Biennial
The 21st Sarcelles International Engraving Biennial is on now and until 10 December at the Janine Haddad School in Sarcelles, France. This event is a point of reference for engravers from all over the world, and this time 250 artists from 36 countries are represented.
“Botaniphoria”, Asuka Hishiki’s cabinet of botanical curiosities
Publishing house Two Rivers Press has just published a book, Botaniphoria, whose subtitle “A cabinet of botanical curiosities” is more than justified: it contains watercolours painted by Asuka Hishiki on ARCHES® Aquarelle hot pressed 300 gsm paper.
“Grabados d’hier et d’aujourd’hui”
The “Pointe & Burin 2023” exhibition entitled “Grabados d’hier et d’aujourd’hui” will run from 25 May to 17 June at the Fondation Taylor in Paris. This year’s exhibition is devoted to the Hispanic world and puts a spotlight on contemporary printmakers whilst paying tribute to their predecessors.
This is the Year of the Cat.
The zodiac calendars of Vietnam and China are very similar, but differ on two points: in the Vietnamese calendar the buffalo replaces the Chinese ox, and similarly, the Vietnamese cat replaces the Chinese rabbit.
To celebrate the 2023 lunar new year, Vietnamese American artist Giang Dinh has created a series of sublime works using coffee, tea and ink on ARCHES® Aquarelle Rough paper.
Cristina Escobar
Cristina Escobar is an artist of Cuban origin who works in a minimalist style, and whose creations often relate to subjects like memory, travel, time, displacement and borders.
She earned a diploma in Plastic Arts, Photography and Cinema at the Academy of Plastic Arts of Santiago de Cuba in 1996. 10 years later, in France, she graduated from the ENSAD art school in Nancy with a BNSEP diploma in Visual Expression and a DNAP in Plastic Arts.
Magnificent photos by Sarah Moon on display at La Galerie Dior
La Galerie Dior, which opened its doors to the public in March 2022, offers visitors from all over the world the chance to plunge into the world of the House of Dior. A unique repository of a unique history, La Galerie Dior also exhibits, in a dialogue with its collections, works of art such as Sarah Moon’s photographs.
Romain Froquet and Christin Georgel, a successful collaboration!
The coming together of the creative mind of one and the technical skills of the other has produced this splendid 5-colour lithograph – including 2 colours using the reduction method – a limited edition of 15 lithographs printed on ARCHES® 88 300 gsm paper. Christin Georgel printed it at his printing shop En l’encre nous croyons in Gérardmer under the watchful eye of its creator Romain Froquet.
Carlos Rodríguez Casado
Born in Palencia in Spain in 1993, Carlos Rodríguez Casado is a passionate portrait artist and caricaturist who works as a press and editorial illustrator.
His illustrations, done exclusively in watercolour, are mainly published in the Spanish daily El Mundo, but he has also worked for MTV, Jot Down, Interviú, Metrópoli as well as taking part in various publishing projects.
Alice Wietzel, the Parisian illustrator who has reinterpreted Nectar
For an important collaborative project between the Quai 36 agency and famous winesellers Nicolas, artist Alice Wietzel produced 250 digital prints of her works on ARCHES® 88 paper to hand out as gifts to the Nicolas staff and customers attending a special event organised last December.
Gérard Garouste retrospective at the Centre Pompidou
From 7 September 2022 to 2 January 2023, the Centre Pompidou is devoting a major retrospective to Gérard Garouste, one of France’s most important contemporary painters.
The exhibition presents 120 important works by the artist along with graphic works for which the preparatory studies were done on Velin d’ARCHES® and Velin BFK Rives® paper.
Chen Liu
Born in 1973 in Kunming in the Chinese province of Yunnan, a member of the Yi people, Chen Liu gained a M.A. in decorative painting in 1996 at the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts (now called The Academy of Arts & Design of Tsinghua University). He teaches at the School of Fine Arts of Yunnan Art University.
Karlyn Shahnazarian
It was during the Covid lockdown that Karlyn was able to explore new modes of expression and start to grasp the real extent of her abilities. She started by experimenting with sketching before eventually finding watercolours. The complexity of this medium immediately appealed to her. The fragility, the attitude and most of all the fluidity.
Storie ad Acquerello Festival in Bergamo
From 24 to 26 September, Bergamo will be hosting the second edition of the Storie ad Acquerello festival. This is Italy’s first festival dedicated to the watercolour painting technique. The event was created and designed by Laura Cortinovis, a well-known illustrator and author of children’s books from Bergamo.
Jean-Paul Marchal, wood engraver and picture maker in Épinal
Born in 1928, Jean-Paul Marchal grew up among the wood shavings of his grandfather’s joinery workshop. First, he was a primary school teacher and it was only when he retired that he returned to his original passion, drawing. At the age of 55, he took classes at the Image d’Épinal school to learn typography. Very quickly, he honed his techniques and perfected his know-how until his talent was revealed by an art critic who immediately dubbed him the “Imagier d’Épinal”, the picture maker of Épinal.
New additions to the ARCHES® Platine range
In 1992, ARCHES® became the first paper mill to develop a special paper for platinum and palladium photographic printing and blue prints: ARCHES® Platine. It has become the paper of choice for photographers who print their work with these alternative techniques. The Arches paper mill has decided to expand its ARCHES® Platine range of papers with two new additions.
10th FÊTE DE L’ESTAMPE
Manifestampe is celebrating the tenth edition of the Fête de l’Estampe on and around 26 May 2022 in towns and cities all over France and Europe. This great event devoted to engraving, lithography, screen printing and also digital processes is an ideal opportunity to celebrate printmaking in all its forms.
Henri Matisse exhibition, Jazz, final proofs
A major exhibition is at the Galerie de l’Institut in Paris until 23 April 2022: Henri Matisse, “Jazz”, the previously unseen final proofs of the compositions produced for the famous book published by Tériade in 1947. The exhibition features a unique set of the artist’s pochoirs (stencil prints) and paper cut-out collages.
Stephen Dock, Our day will come
The Irlande du Nord (Northern Ireland) exhibition opening on 22 May 2022 at the Musée Nicéphore Niépce in Chalon-sur-Saône features photographic work by Gilles Caron and Stephen Dock.
Fifty years after the events of Bloody Sunday, the exhibition proposes a dual photographic perspective, historic and contemporary of the Northern Irish situation.
Thierry Duval
Thierry Duval has been drawing and painting since childhood. He produced his first work in 1980 in a narrative form, the comic strip, and would later work as an illustrator, then as a part of the creative team in a large advertising agency in Paris. It was while he was preparing for the entrance exam for the Arts Décoratifs school in Paris that he discovered the work of Delacroix and then a passion for watercolour. He graduated in 1982.
Youdesignme
Youdesignme is an independent illustrator called Kristin who lives in Berlin, in Germany. Her favourite media are watercolours and drawing, but she also practises her art digitally.For almost all of her paintings, she works with a very limited palette of just seven colours and uses ARCHES® Aquarelle cold pressed paper.
With ARTI’TEACH by ARCHES®, our papers will no longer hold any secrets for you!
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.
Environmental protection, a matter of sustainable determination!
A new international certification now rewards ARCHES®’s constant commitment to the protection of the environment and sustainable development. The Arches paper mill has long included socially and environmentally responsible practices in its manufacturing process. In keeping with those commitments ARCHES® has recently earned SCS Recycled Content certification.
Caleme, a fascinating artist, fascinated by paper
Caleme or Caroline Le Meur, is a French artist who was born in Alsace and grew up immersed in the world of paper since the family business involved selling paper. She began her artistic career as a fresco painter.
Caleme then went to live in China where she enriched her artistic techniques, in particular learning the paper cutting arts from masters of the traditional techniques.
Murmure des Mousses, an art book for children
Murmure des Mousses, written by the French author Karin Serres, is a very unusual piece of work. Aimed at babies and very young children, it consists of two French texts which can be read together or separately, depending on the child’s level of understanding.
12th Biennale internationale d’estampe contemporaine at Trois-Rivières
The 12th Biennale internationale d’estampe contemporaine opened on Sunday 12 June at Trois-Rivières in Québec. Éric Fourmestraux, the French engraver, has been awarded the Desjardins prize for his installation “In Memoriam” [to the 48 Jewish children deported from the Vicq d’Azir school in the 10th arrondissement of Paris].
Exhibition Painting Grounds – Painting with ochre!
This exhibition at the Boléro Gallery in Versoix, in the Canton of Geneva in Switzerland, highlights artists from radically different cultural backgrounds including Australia, Italy, Switzerland, China and France. It reveals the great artistic diversity produced by the artist’s hand, ochre and paper. The exhibition is the result of a partnership between the Dialogue Céramique association and ARCHES®.
Velin BFK Rives® paper
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.
28th Festival International du Film Fantastique de Gérardmer
Gérardmer 2021, a fantastic virtual festival!
This year, the Festival International du Film Fantastique de Gérardmer, which took place from 27 to 31 January 2021, was on line. The organizers did not want to cancel the feature festival despite the pandemic.
ARCHES® special papers for photography – a long history!
Today, ARCHES® is very proud to present to photographers & printmakers its new range of papers for high-end fine art digital printing. These papers have an innovative surface coating specially developed by its research centres. These are the whitest papers on the market made on a cylinder mould without optical brighteners!
Picasso and the Comic Strip
Picasso and the Comic Strip was the theme of one of the two not-to-be-missed exhibitions at the Musée Picasso in Paris at the end of 2020. The second one entitled Picasso Poet was to have run at the same time. They shared a common theme, the link between text and image in the work of Pablo Picasso.
Marianne Guély
It was during her training in industrial design at ENSAAMA Olivier de Serres, where she graduated in 1989, that Marianne Guély discovered and tamed paper, which would become the signature material for her creations.
Working first as a freelance designer, her expertise in using objects and space as a territory of expression for brands was sharpened when she joined forces with the Cent Degrés agency.
Who is Giang Dinh?
Giang Dinh was born in Hue, Vietnam in 1966. When he was about 7 years old, his parents gave him some books on origami. He studied architecture, but the Vietnam War broke out and the family lost everything. But he still had in his memory a few traditional origami models that he had learned from those books. He moved to the United States to continue his architecture studies. The one day in 1996, by chance he came across one of the books he parents had given him in a bookshop…
Jules Perrigot, inventor of the highway code…
Jules Perrigot was born on 3 November 1861 in Vimoutiers in Normandy.
Following the deaths of his parents and his elder sister, he decided to leave his native region and move to Paris, where he made many friends and met his future wife. Claire was the daughter of Léon Masure, director and owner of Papeteries d’Arches, who lost his life in a fire in 1897. The pair married on 11 February 1888 in Arches, and the paper mill was Claire’s dowry.
27e Festival International du Film Fantastique de Gérardmer
In 1994, the Festival du Film Fantastique de Gérardmer picked up the torch dropped by the Festival International du Film Fantastique d’Avoriaz. The new festival was called “Fantastica” until 1996, when it took the name of “Fantastic’Arts”, a sign of its opening up to other forms of artistic expression as well as cinema, including the plastic arts. In 2009 the Festival changed its name to “Festival International du Film Fantastique de Gérardmer”.
Sarcelles hosts the International Engraving Biennial from 23 November to 8 December 2019
In its contemporary form, engraving still has to prove that it deserves its place alongside other artistic disciplines. It suffers from being unjustly represented as outdated, whereas it has never ceased to be a source of creativity.
La Prophétie du Papier, un spectacle hommage à la tradition papetière
The village of Docelles in the Vosges, “paper town”, is a reality that is very much alive. For the village and its inhabitants, the closure of the LANA paper mill in 2003, after over 400 years of production, marked the beginning of the end of an industrial saga, but also the beginning of a brand new story.
Fabien Verschaere at the Ilmin Museum of Art in Seoul
Fabien Verschaere will be showing his “Everyday is Your Birthday” project, consisting of 45 drawings done on white Velin d’ARCHES® 400 gsm paper, as part of the Immortality in the Cloud exhibition at the Ilmin Museum of Art in Seoul (Korea) from 22 February to 12 May 2019.
Noémie Sauve and the Tara Pacific Expedition
Noémie Sauve is a visual artist born in 1980 in the Drôme, France. She now lives in Paris and is a committed activist. She has been selected by the prestigious jury of the Tara Pacific Foundation to complete a unique two-month residency with the Tara Expedition, a schooner that travels the world’s oceans with scientists on board studying the oceans and how to preserve them…
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ARCHES® HISTORY WITHIN HISTORY
The year 1492, an emblematic date for ARCHES®, for it is the year our paper mill was founded in the village of Arches in the Vosges region of France. At the time, France and the entire world were in the midst of a period of great effervescence marked by major historical events like the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus.
Die besten Wünsche für 2025!
Ein neues Jahr steht vor der Tür und wir möchten den Benutzern unserer ARCHES® Papiere unsere tiefe Dankbarkeit für ihre Treue ausdrücken.
Jeff Carter, a big-hearted artist
Jeff Carter is a self-taught artist who began to draw and paint for pleasure about seven years ago. He took watercolour lessons locally and online and watched tutorials on YouTube. But he was not progressing as he hoped. He then started sketching subjects he liked, to immortalise his memories by drawing the places he visits using mixed media techniques: felt tip pen and washes.
Peter Reuterberg, artist by nature
Peter Reuterberg is a Swedish artist originally from Hjärtum, in the Bohuslän inlands. After studying art and design in Gothenburg, he graduated with a master’s in Fine Arts. Peter has devoted his entire life to painting and sculpture. Watercolour is the technique that captivates him the most. The elusive power inherent in the watercolour pigments released when they are mixed with water represents a challenge that he willingly embraces.
ARCHES® 88, the ideal medium for screen-printing
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.
Matty Burnham, optimistic illustrator
Matty Burnham is an English ink and watercolour illustrator. Although originally from Cumbria, he now lives near Leeds in Yorkshire. The region’s beautiful landscapes are a significant source of inspiration for him. He also loves visiting less familiar areas such as the incredible Northumbrian castles or the lochside cottages of the Highlands, and illustrating them.
YOU ARCHES® Emilie GAND, QHSE Manager at the Arches Paper Mill
Introduce yourself briefly: first name, surname, whether you live in Arches or nearby, for how...
The luminous watercolours of Christian Koivumaa
Christian Koivumaa was born in 1978 in Northern Sweden and grew up there. Very quickly he opted for a sporting career, in karate; After succeeding brilliantly on the international stage, injury forced him into early retirement. This marked the opening of a new chapter in his life as he joined the art world with the same commitment that had earned him his success in sport.
The Picto Fashion Photography Award / Paolo Roversi Exhibition
The Picto Fashion Photography Award ceremony was held on 5 June last at the Palais Galliera in Paris, which was also hosting an exhibition dedicated to Paolo Roversi. The guests attending the award ceremony were also able to visit the exhibition of the renowned photographer’s work.
Amanda Reis, portrait of a passionate watercolourist
Amanda Reis is a Brazilian artist living in Portugal. She first discovered watercolour in 2017 and fell in love with the light, fluid nature of this painting technique which she finds very relaxing.
ARTI’VIEW by ARCHES® Gilles Lorin, a contemporary photographer with a craftsman’s soul
In this latest edition of ARTI’VIEW by ARCHES®, we invite you to discover talented photographer Gilles Lorin. He was born in Aix-en-Provence, France in 1973 and he now lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.
ARCHES Platine – das ideale Papier für alternative fotografische Druckverfahren
ARCHES® Platine besitzt alle notwendigen Eigenschaften für die Herstellung großartiger Fotodrucke mit alternativen Verfahren. Um optimale Ergebnisse zu erzielen, erfordern diese Verfahren die Verwendung von Papier höchster Qualität. Das ARCHES® Platine Papier ist DIE Referenz für anspruchsvolle Fotografen und Drucker weltweit.
Mad Charcoal, a very talented artist
American artist, Josh Hernandez, better known in the art world as Mad Charcoal, was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1995. He holds a BSD (Bachelor of Science in Design) from Arizona State University and currently resides in Phoenix.
The secrets of BFK Rives® paper revealed!
American artist-photographer, Peter J. Blackburn, explains how he has managed to get the hang of BFK Rives® paper for gum bichromate printing and has become a firm convert.
Julie-Victoire Daubié, the first woman to pass the baccalaureate
Julie-Victoire Daubié was born in 1824 at the Manufacture Royale de Bains-les Bains in the Vosges region of France. She would become the first woman in France to be awarded the baccalaureate. This is why the French Ministry of Culture has granted this site the “Maisons des Illustres” label which recognises historic houses which preserve and transmit the memory of men and women who made distinguished contributions to the political, social and cultural history of France.
Joan Coch, a prolific and passionate artist
Joan Coch is a Spanish artist with innate artistic skills. As a child, he already showed astonishing creative abilities, which he would go on, on to continually develop throughout his career as a professional artist in different fields: architecture, interior decoration, visual arts, painting.
ARCHES® Huile
2012 brachte die Papiermühle Arches mit ARCHES® Huile ein speziell für die Ölmalerei geeignetes Papier auf den Markt.
FIRST ATLAS OF THE UNITED STATES OF ACID BY DIDIER MUTEL
For centuries engraving and etching were the methods used to produce maps and atlases. But what we have here is not a simple map of the real world – instead we have a utopian version of a country characterised by a reality full of hope and humorous fiction.
ARTI’VIEW by ARCHES Youri Messen-Jaschin, an illusionist with immeasurable talent!
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.
Portrait of French-Argentine printmaker Pablo Flaiszman
Pablo Flaiszman is an artist from Buenos Aires in Argentina. He was drawn to art and drawing in childhood, and from the age of 20 trained in painting and drawing with Luisa Reisner, who quickly noticed his talent.
Cristina Escobar, winner of the DDESSIN PARIS Prize 2024
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.
Steve Mitchell, passionate about watercolours
Steve Mitchell has been drawing since he was a child. When he was six, his mother gave him a “step-by-step” drawing book – and a passion for drawing was born. When he was about ten, he started to try out different media like graphite and charcoal, and gradually started to perfect his technique.
T’ang Haywen exhibition at the Musée Guimet
An exceptional exhibition devoted to T’ang Haywen will be running from 17 June 2024 at the Musée Guimet (the National Museum of Asian Arts) in Paris. Entitled “Un peintre chinois à Paris” (A Chinese Painter in Paris), it reveals the tremendous talent of a great Chinese artist and contemporary of Zao Wou-Ki.
Vincent Jeannerot, botanical watercolourist
Botanical watercolour painter Vincent Jeannerot was born in Lyon in 1961. His taste for contemplating nature began during family walks in the countryside around Lyon.
“Regards croisés” by Patryck Vaucoulon
Artist Ayda-Su Nuroglu invites us to her exhibition entitled “ÉCLOSION” which is taking place from 19 April to 26 May 2024 at the Chapelle des Pénitents in Aniane, France.
ARCHES® Aquarelle Reisejournal mit satiniertem Papier
Das Sortiment von ARCHES® wird um ein neues ARCHES® Aquarelle Reisejournal mit satiniertem Papier erweitert.
ÉCLOSION exhibition – Ayda-Su Nuroglu
Artist Ayda-Su Nuroglu invites us to her exhibition entitled “ÉCLOSION” which is taking place from 19 April to 26 May 2024 at the Chapelle des Pénitents in Aniane, France.
European Artistic Crafts Days
Didier Clad is an Alsatian artist who has won several awards, including the Métiers d’Arts prize for copperplate engraving in 2000 – Sema, Paris. He is a plastic artist, intaglio printmaker and publisher of artists’ books, and he has been selected by the Institut National des Métiers d´Art to take part in the 2024 event.
Hanging ARCHES® papers up to dry with clothes pegs
The Arches paper mill is renowned the world over for its top-of-the-range papers made on...
ARTI’VIEW by ARCHES® Charlotte Galloux and Quadrilaser, a successful collaboration
We have interviewed artist Charlotte Galloux and the Quadrilaser studio that produced the large inkjet prints of some of her pictures.
ARCHES® Aquarelle ist das beste Papier für Aquarellmalerei
In den Fachgeschäften finden Sie eine große Auswahl an Künstlerpapieren. Die Wahl des richtigen Papiers ist entscheidend, damit Ihre Aquarellbilder gelingen und Sie bei Ihren Techniken nicht eingeschränkt sind. Hier erklären wir Ihnen, warum das ARCHES® Aquarelle Papier die beste Wahl ist.
Velin d‘ARCHES® Papier
Velin d’ARCHES® Papier ist ein emblematisches, besonders hochwertiges Papier aus 100 % Baumwolle von ARCHES®...
Luke Adam Hawker, an artist connected to his world
Luke Adam Hawker is a professional artist based in Surrey, England. He studied Interior Architecture and Design at Nottingham Trent University and worked as a designer in London before becoming a full-time artist in 2015. He has a passion for drawing on location and is fascinated by the world around him, using art as a way of connecting with places and people.
YOU ARCHES® Jean-Baptiste Pierrot, production planning manager at the Arches paper mill
Introduce yourself briefly My name's Jean-Baptiste Pierrot, I'm 44 and I've always lived in the...
Dominique Laugé photography exhibition in Gaillac
An exhibition of photos by Dominique Laugé entitled La lumière du sombre runs from 14 to 28 January 2024 at the Centre pour la Photographie at the Château de l’Hom de Gaillac, France.
31st Festival International du Film Fantastique de Gérardmer
The 31st Festival International du film Fantastique will be held in Gérardmer from 31 January...
Rocco Ancora, a photographer of exception
Rocco Ancora is an Italian photographer based in Australia who specialises in wedding photographs and portraits. His work, the fruit of over 25 years of experience, is emotive, poetic and romantic.
21st Sarcelles International Engraving Biennial
The 21st Sarcelles International Engraving Biennial is on now and until 10 December at the Janine Haddad School in Sarcelles, France. This event is a point of reference for engravers from all over the world, and this time 250 artists from 36 countries are represented.
YOU ARCHES® Cyril Bedez, production team leader at the Arches paper mill
My name is Cyril Bedez. I’ve lived in Beauménil, a little village in the Vosges for 10 years. I’ve been working at Arches for 20 years.
“Bird of Peace” by Mirza Moric
“Bird of Peace” by Mirza Moric, will be exhibited from 9 November 2023 to 7 February 2024 in Paris, at the corner of Carrousel Bridge and Quai Voltaire. For this occasion, Mirza Moric will publish engravings on Velin BFK Rives® 250 gsm paper.
The 2023 Page(s Fair
From 24 to 26 November 2023, bibliophiles will come together at the Palais de la Femme in Paris for their annual meeting at the Page(s Fair
Ulrich Lebeuf Corpus exhibition at the Centre pour la Photographie du Château de l’Hom
From 14 October to 5 November 2023, the Centre pour la Photographie du Château de l’Hom in Gaillac (France) will be hosting the Ulrich Lebeuf exhibition entitled Corpus.
Treasures in Black & White at the Petit Palais
The Treasures in Black & White exhibition, which offers a unique overview of printmaking from the 15th to the 20th century, continues at the Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris until 14 January 2024.
Alyse Dietel, artist by nature
Drawing was originally only a hobby for Alyse, who was a professional rock climber until she fell from a cliff during a hike in 2012.
Didier Clad exhibition in Ribeauvillé
A new exhibition of Didier Clad’s work is running at the Cave de Ribeauvillé (France, Alsace region) from 28 June to 31 September 2023. For this exhibition, the artist is presenting works from his studio as well as works created specially for this event.
Jennia Aponte, the art of collage
Jennia Aponte is an artist who excels in the art of collage. She selects and meticulously assembles fragments of stories to tell another story and explore the infinite possibilities of the imagination.
“Botaniphoria”, Asuka Hishiki’s cabinet of botanical curiosities
Publishing house Two Rivers Press has just published a book, Botaniphoria, whose subtitle “A cabinet of botanical curiosities” is more than justified: it contains watercolours painted by Asuka Hishiki on ARCHES® Aquarelle hot pressed 300 gsm paper.
“Grabados d’hier et d’aujourd’hui”
The “Pointe & Burin 2023” exhibition entitled “Grabados d’hier et d’aujourd’hui” will run from 25 May to 17 June at the Fondation Taylor in Paris. This year’s exhibition is devoted to the Hispanic world and puts a spotlight on contemporary printmakers whilst paying tribute to their predecessors.
11th FÊTE DE L’ESTAMPE
Manifestampe is organising the 11th edition of the Fête de l’Estampe on and around 26 May 2023 in France and beyond. We say beyond because this year’s event is also taking place in Canada!
Exhibition of photographs by Bruno Paccard
From 28 April to 16 September 2023, the Municipal Archives in Lyon are organising a retrospective exhibition of photographs by Bruno Paccard entitled “Des matières et des atmosphères” (Materials and Atmospheres).
This is the Year of the Cat.
The zodiac calendars of Vietnam and China are very similar, but differ on two points: in the Vietnamese calendar the buffalo replaces the Chinese ox, and similarly, the Vietnamese cat replaces the Chinese rabbit. To celebrate the 2023 lunar new year, Vietnamese American artist Giang Dinh has created a series of sublime works using coffee, tea and ink on ARCHES® Aquarelle Rough paper.
Cristina Escobar
Cristina Escobar is an artist of Cuban origin who works in a minimalist style, and whose creations often relate to subjects like memory, travel, time, displacement and borders. She earned a diploma in Plastic Arts, Photography and Cinema at the Academy of Plastic Arts of Santiago de Cuba in 1996. 10 years later, in France, she graduated from the ENSAD art school in Nancy with a BNSEP diploma in Visual Expression and a DNAP in Plastic Arts.
ARCHES® INTIMATE MOMENTS
Discover what goes on behind the scenes at the Arches paper mill. ARCHES® lifts the veil a little with its new video program entitled ARCHES® Intimate Moments.
Magnificent photos by Sarah Moon on display at La Galerie Dior
La Galerie Dior, which opened its doors to the public in March 2022, offers visitors from all over the world the chance to plunge into the world of the House of Dior. A unique repository of a unique history, La Galerie Dior also exhibits, in a dialogue with its collections, works of art such as Sarah Moon’s photographs.
Romain Froquet and Christin Georgel, a successful collaboration!
The coming together of the creative mind of one and the technical skills of the other has produced this splendid 5-colour lithograph – including 2 colours using the reduction method – a limited edition of 15 lithographs printed on ARCHES® 88 300 gsm paper. Christin Georgel printed it at his printing shop En l’encre nous croyons in Gérardmer under the watchful eye of its creator Romain Froquet.
Carlos Rodríguez Casado
Born in Palencia in Spain in 1993, Carlos Rodríguez Casado is a passionate portrait artist and caricaturist who works as a press and editorial illustrator. His illustrations, done exclusively in watercolour, are mainly published in the Spanish daily El Mundo, but he has also worked for MTV, Jot Down, Interviú, Metrópoli as well as taking part in various publishing projects.
Alice Wietzel, the Parisian illustrator who has reinterpreted Nectar
For an important collaborative project between the Quai 36 agency and famous winesellers Nicolas, artist Alice Wietzel produced 250 digital prints of her works on ARCHES® 88 paper to hand out as gifts to the Nicolas staff and customers attending a special event organised last December.
30th Festival International du Film Fantastique de Gérardmer
The 30th edition of the Festival International du Film Fantastique de Gérardmer will take place from 25 to 29 January 2023 in the heart of the Vosges mountains.
Canson® Infinity Certified Print Lab Ian Hill Fine Art Printing
Specialising in artwork reproduction, Canson® Infinity Certified Print Lab Ian Hill Fine Art Printing is an Australian expert at advising the different artists who frequent his establishment.
Gérard Garouste retrospective at the Centre Pompidou
From 7 September 2022 to 2 January 2023, the Centre Pompidou is devoting a major retrospective to Gérard Garouste, one of France’s most important contemporary painters. The exhibition presents 120 important works by the artist along with graphic works for which the preparatory studies were done on Velin d’ARCHES® and Velin BFK Rives® paper.
Booklovers, on your marks…to your pages!
The Page(s fair is THE unmissable event for all booklovers and collectors. It takes place in Paris, at the Palais de la Femme, from 25 to 27 November 2022.
87th Salon de la Société des Aquarellistes Lyonnais
The 87th edition of the Salon de la Société des Aquarellistes Lyonnais will be taking place from 12 to 28 November 2022.
Chen Liu
Born in 1973 in Kunming in the Chinese province of Yunnan, a member of the Yi people, Chen Liu gained a M.A. in decorative painting in 1996 at the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts (now called The Academy of Arts & Design of Tsinghua University). He teaches at the School of Fine Arts of Yunnan Art University.
Jean-François Escande exhibition
At an exhibition in Lège-Cap Ferret running from 10 to 29 October 2022, Jean-François Escande, an architect and self-taught visual artist from Bordeaux, will be showing a number of works mainly done in series in Indian ink and charcoal.
Karlyn Shahnazarian
It was during the Covid lockdown that Karlyn was able to explore new modes of expression and start to grasp the real extent of her abilities. She started by experimenting with sketching before eventually finding watercolours. The complexity of this medium immediately appealed to her. The fragility, the attitude and most of all the fluidity.
Storie ad Acquerello Festival in Bergamo
From 24 to 26 September, Bergamo will be hosting the second edition of the Storie ad Acquerello festival. This is Italy’s first festival dedicated to the watercolour painting technique. The event was created and designed by Laura Cortinovis, a well-known illustrator and author of children’s books from Bergamo.
Gaillac Festival papier[s] photo
Gaillac Festival papier [s] photo From 19 to 25 August 2022 Gaillac will be hosting the Festival Papier [s] Photo, an event that celebrates photographic printing and, of course, the paper itself.
Jean-Paul Marchal, wood engraver and picture maker in Épinal
Born in 1928, Jean-Paul Marchal grew up among the wood shavings of his grandfather’s joinery workshop. First, he was a primary school teacher and it was only when he retired that he returned to his original passion, drawing. At the age of 55, he took classes at the Image d’Épinal school to learn typography. Very quickly, he honed his techniques and perfected his know-how until his talent was revealed by an art critic who immediately dubbed him the “Imagier d’Épinal”, the picture maker of Épinal.
New additions to the ARCHES® Platine range
In 1992, ARCHES® became the first paper mill to develop a special paper for platinum and palladium photographic printing and blue prints: ARCHES® Platine. It has become the paper of choice for photographers who print their work with these alternative techniques. The Arches paper mill has decided to expand its ARCHES® Platine range of papers with two new additions.
ARCHES®, a Living Heritage Company
The Arches paper mill obtained the “Entreprise du Patrimoine Vivant” (Living Heritage Company) mark of recognition for the first time in 2017. It has just been awarded the precious distinction again, for a further five years.
10th FÊTE DE L’ESTAMPE
Manifestampe is celebrating the tenth edition of the Fête de l’Estampe on and around 26 May 2022 in towns and cities all over France and Europe. This great event devoted to engraving, lithography, screen printing and also digital processes is an ideal opportunity to celebrate printmaking in all its forms.
Henri Matisse exhibition, Jazz, final proofs
A major exhibition is at the Galerie de l’Institut in Paris until 23 April 2022: Henri Matisse, “Jazz”, the previously unseen final proofs of the compositions produced for the famous book published by Tériade in 1947. The exhibition features a unique set of the artist’s pochoirs (stencil prints) and paper cut-out collages.
Stephen Dock, Our day will come
The Irlande du Nord (Northern Ireland) exhibition opening on 22 May 2022 at the Musée Nicéphore Niépce in Chalon-sur-Saône features photographic work by Gilles Caron and Stephen Dock. Fifty years after the events of Bloody Sunday, the exhibition proposes a dual photographic perspective, historic and contemporary of the Northern Irish situation.
A new ARCHES® Aquarelle travel journal!
The ARCHES® Aquarelle range now includes a new generation travel journal sketchbook. The ARCHES® Aquarelle travel journal has been eagerly awaited by numerous watercolourists. We are delighted to present the brand new version.
Thierry Duval
Thierry Duval has been drawing and painting since childhood. He produced his first work in 1980 in a narrative form, the comic strip, and would later work as an illustrator, then as a part of the creative team in a large advertising agency in Paris. It was while he was preparing for the entrance exam for the Arts Décoratifs school in Paris that he discovered the work of Delacroix and then a passion for watercolour. He graduated in 1982.
29th Festival International du Film Fantastique de Gérardmer
It’s a date! The Festival International du Film Fantastique de Gérardmer is coming soon: from 26 to 30 January 2022. A real live edition with people on seats in the cinemas of the Vosges.
Youdesignme
Youdesignme is an independent illustrator called Kristin who lives in Berlin, in Germany. Her favourite media are watercolours and drawing, but she also practises her art digitally.For almost all of her paintings, she works with a very limited palette of just seven colours and uses ARCHES® Aquarelle cold pressed paper.
Ayda-Su Nuroğlu exhibits her “Sortilèges”
Inspired by the traditional symbols and rites that subsist in our societies, Ayda-Su Nuroğlu draws on the relations between men and women, nature and culture, as well humans’ relations with animals.
With ARTI’TEACH by ARCHES®, our papers will no longer hold any secrets for you!
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.
Environmental protection, a matter of sustainable determination!
A new international certification now rewards ARCHES®’s constant commitment to the protection of the environment and sustainable development. The Arches paper mill has long included socially and environmentally responsible practices in its manufacturing process. In keeping with those commitments ARCHES® has recently earned SCS Recycled Content certification.
Caleme, a fascinating artist, fascinated by paper
Caleme or Caroline Le Meur, is a French artist who was born in Alsace and grew up immersed in the world of paper since the family business involved selling paper. She began her artistic career as a fresco painter. Caleme then went to live in China where she enriched her artistic techniques, in particular learning the paper cutting arts from masters of the traditional techniques.
Sarcelles International Engraving Biennial, from 27 November to 12 December 2021
The city of Sarcelles, with the support of the Ministry of Culture, presents the 20th edition of the Sarcelles International Engraving Biennial, from 27 November to 12 December 2021
Les aventures de jolies madeleines
Gilles Marchal, one of France’s best chocolatiers, has just published a book in the La cuisine des poètes collection, Aventures de jolies madeleines.
Allegoria by Omar Victor Diop at Paris Photo 2021
The MAGNIN-A Art Gallery presents Allegoria, the latest series of photographs by Omar Victor Diop, at Paris Photo, the international art fair held from 11 to 14 November 2021 in the Grand Palais temporary exhibition area.
LUXE PACK, the luxury packaging show
At the end of September, Monaco hosted LUXE PACK, the premier international trade event in the luxury packaging field for over 30 years. Every year, the fair brings together manufacturers of creative packaging from more than 30 different countries.
An exhibition dedicated to the Arches paper mill
From 3 September to 13 October 2021, the public library in the small town of Arches, in partnership with ARCHES®, is organising an exhibition dedicated to the Arches paper mill and its long and fascinating history.
2 “Hot Ones” awards!
Our 2 new digital fine art papers, ARCHES® 88 and ARCHES® BFK RIVES® Pure White,…
ARCHES® 88 paper
Why number 88? 88, which we find in the watermark of this ARCHES® art publishing…
Murmure des Mousses, an art book for children
Murmure des Mousses, written by the French author Karin Serres, is a very unusual piece of work. Aimed at babies and very young children, it consists of two French texts which can be read together or separately, depending on the child’s level of understanding.
12th Biennale internationale d’estampe contemporaine at Trois-Rivières
The 12th Biennale internationale d’estampe contemporaine opened on Sunday 12 June at Trois-Rivières in Québec. Éric Fourmestraux, the French engraver, has been awarded the Desjardins prize for his installation “In Memoriam” [to the 48 Jewish children deported from the Vicq d’Azir school in the 10th arrondissement of Paris].
Exhibition Painting Grounds – Painting with ochre!
This exhibition at the Boléro Gallery in Versoix, in the Canton of Geneva in Switzerland, highlights artists from radically different cultural backgrounds including Australia, Italy, Switzerland, China and France. It reveals the great artistic diversity produced by the artist’s hand, ochre and paper. The exhibition is the result of a partnership between the Dialogue Céramique association and ARCHES®.
YOU ARCHES®, the women and men behind our wonderful papers!
ARCHES® has decided to showcase its employees and their expertise through its new video programme…
ARCHES® Digital Printmaking Starter Kit
You are looking to reproduce your most beautiful artworks on ARCHES® digital papers, then try…
Digital Printmaking Tutorials by Robert Rodriguez Jr.
Working alongside Canon, and renowned photographer and landscape artist, Robert Rodriguez Jr., the team at ARCHES® have created a step-by-step guide for artists looking to create their own limited edition prints .
ARTI’VIEW by ARCHES®
For all those who want to talk about their artistic technique with a new showcase, we’ve named this new feature ARTI’VIEW by ARCHES®!
Velin BFK Rives® paper
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.
ARCHES® is partnering with Canon!
For the launch of its new range of digital fine art papers, ARCHES® is partnering with Canon, one of the leading brands in the digital imaging market.
28th Festival International du Film Fantastique de Gérardmer
Gérardmer 2021, a fantastic virtual festival! This year, the Festival International du Film Fantastique de Gérardmer, which took place from 27 to 31 January 2021, was on line. The organizers did not want to cancel the feature festival despite the pandemic.
ARCHES® special papers for photography – a long history!
Today, ARCHES® is very proud to present to photographers & printmakers its new range of papers for high-end fine art digital printing. These papers have an innovative surface coating specially developed by its research centres. These are the whitest papers on the market made on a cylinder mould without optical brighteners!
Picasso and the Comic Strip
Picasso and the Comic Strip was the theme of one of the two not-to-be-missed exhibitions at the Musée Picasso in Paris at the end of 2020. The second one entitled Picasso Poet was to have run at the same time. They shared a common theme, the link between text and image in the work of Pablo Picasso.
Marianne Guély
It was during her training in industrial design at ENSAAMA Olivier de Serres, where she graduated in 1989, that Marianne Guély discovered and tamed paper, which would become the signature material for her creations. Working first as a freelance designer, her expertise in using objects and space as a territory of expression for brands was sharpened when she joined forces with the Cent Degrés agency.
Who is Giang Dinh?
Giang Dinh was born in Hue, Vietnam in 1966. When he was about 7 years old, his parents gave him some books on origami. He studied architecture, but the Vietnam War broke out and the family lost everything. But he still had in his memory a few traditional origami models that he had learned from those books. He moved to the United States to continue his architecture studies. The one day in 1996, by chance he came across one of the books he parents had given him in a bookshop…
Jules Perrigot, inventor of the highway code…
Jules Perrigot was born on 3 November 1861 in Vimoutiers in Normandy. Following the deaths of his parents and his elder sister, he decided to leave his native region and move to Paris, where he made many friends and met his future wife. Claire was the daughter of Léon Masure, director and owner of Papeteries d’Arches, who lost his life in a fire in 1897. The pair married on 11 February 1888 in Arches, and the paper mill was Claire’s dowry.
27e Festival International du Film Fantastique de Gérardmer
In 1994, the Festival du Film Fantastique de Gérardmer picked up the torch dropped by the Festival International du Film Fantastique d’Avoriaz. The new festival was called “Fantastica” until 1996, when it took the name of “Fantastic’Arts”, a sign of its opening up to other forms of artistic expression as well as cinema, including the plastic arts. In 2009 the Festival changed its name to “Festival International du Film Fantastique de Gérardmer”.
Sarcelles hosts the International Engraving Biennial from 23 November to 8 December 2019
In its contemporary form, engraving still has to prove that it deserves its place alongside other artistic disciplines. It suffers from being unjustly represented as outdated, whereas it has never ceased to be a source of creativity.
T’ang Haywen
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.
La Prophétie du Papier, un spectacle hommage à la tradition papetière
The village of Docelles in the Vosges, “paper town”, is a reality that is very much alive. For the village and its inhabitants, the closure of the LANA paper mill in 2003, after over 400 years of production, marked the beginning of the end of an industrial saga, but also the beginning of a brand new story.
At the 62th exhibition by Pointe & burin, imagination comes first
The engravers’ association, Pointe & burin, is organizing its annual exhibition at the Taylor Foundation from May 2 to June 15, 2019. Engravers from Gascony are the guests of honor.
Gilles Lorin at New York AIPAD show
One of the most prestigious annual photography events will be taking place in New York from 4 to 7 April 2019. This is the 39th edition of the Photography Show organised by the Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD).
Fabien Verschaere at the Ilmin Museum of Art in Seoul
Fabien Verschaere will be showing his “Everyday is Your Birthday” project, consisting of 45 drawings done on white Velin d’ARCHES® 400 gsm paper, as part of the Immortality in the Cloud exhibition at the Ilmin Museum of Art in Seoul (Korea) from 22 February to 12 May 2019.
Richard Thorn: watercolour as second nature!
It was at the age of 28, after spending his early years drawing, that Richard naturally moved on to watercolour. By dint of hard work and experimentation, he has perfected his art to such a degree where he is now recognised worldwide.
Maryam Eisler
Maryam Eisler’s second solo exhibition, Imagining Tina: A Dialogue With Edward Weston will take place in London from February 8th to March 2nd, 2019.
Pierre Chaillet, PANORAMA ZERO exhibition (continued)
Recently, on 25 October, we did a “making of” feature on Pierre Chaillet’s PANORAMA ZÉRO exhibition.
Maarit Häninnen
Maarit Häninnen is a 21st century portrait artist and printmaker originally from Finland. She is currently living in Amsterdam, where she discovered the gravure printing process…
Frederick Brosen, New York, New York!
Frederick Brosen is one of the greatest American watercolourists. Born in 1954 in New York, he studied at the Art Students League and the Pratt Institute, where he obtained his MFA (Master of Fine Arts) in 1979.
The Little Prince in braille
On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the first edition of The Little Prince, the Fondation Saint-Exupéry has launched a project to create embossed versions of a selection of 23 illustrations by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
Noémie Sauve and the Tara Pacific Expedition
Noémie Sauve is a visual artist born in 1980 in the Drôme, France. She now lives in Paris and is a committed activist. She has been selected by the prestigious jury of the Tara Pacific Foundation to complete a unique two-month residency with the Tara Expedition, a schooner that travels the world’s oceans with scientists on board studying the oceans and how to preserve them…
A diploma for a Nobel Prize
Richard Vakil is an artist from Lysekil in Sweden. He is a self-taught artist who acquired a taste for watercolour thanks after taking lessons at the Ljungskile Folkhøjskola. Watercolour painting is his preferred technique, but he also uses acrylics…
Luca Brandi, a great minimalist artist!
Luca Brandi is an Italian artist born in 1961 in Florence, where he still lives. He started to take an interest in painting as early as the age of 9, when he began helping his teacher to paint icons in a number of churches in Florence…
Sandrine’s secret talents
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.
The Nuremberg Chronicle printed on ARCHES® paper
The Nuremberg Chronicle is a book that was published in Germany in 1493. Written in Latin, but with a German translation, it is one of the best-documented, best-preserved incunables…
Silvia De Bastiani’s nature watercolours
Silvia De Bastiani is a painter who was born in 1981. She started to work with watercolours in 1996 and took summer courses with Angelo Gorlini for 4 years, after which she studied at the International School of Graphics in Venice.
Tsukiyo Ono, passionate about watercolours
Tsukiyo Ono is a Japanese watercolour artist born in 1969. She is a graduate of the Akashi High School art school and lives in Kawasaki in Kanagawa Prefecture.
Vera Billing’s pigmented painting
Vera Billing is a Swedish watercolour artist who draws her inspiration from the nature and more particularly the flora. Her special devotion for plant life goes back to her childhood…
Doug Sneyd, the veteran Playboy cartoonist!
Doug Sneyd was born in Guelph, Ontario, but spent much of his professional career in…
A mysterious wedding announcement card…
Not long ago in Greece Alex Tsiavos discovered a book of music hidden in a…
ARCHES®, Entreprise du Patrimoine Vivant
ARCHES® has recently been granted “Entreprise du Patrimoine Vivant” (Living Heritage Company) status, in recognition…
Xavier Casalta, stippler and stickler
Xavier Casalta, a young artist living near Sisteron in the South of France, creates precise and delicate typographical works with extremely worked shades and contrasts.
Estampes, prints… Follow the guide!
If you would like to know exactly what constitutes a print – estampe in French – or you wish to find out more about lithographs, the gravure process and other printed art forms…
Portrait of a “printer beyond compare”
Lorenz, you are a “screen printer designer”, aren’t you? Can you describe your job? Yes,…
Philipp Hennevogl explains the reductive engraving technique
Philipp Hennevogl was born in 1968 in Würzburg (Germany). Since 1992, he has exhibited regularly in numerous galleries and art institutions and his works feature in many private and public collections in Germany.
The floral and colourful watercolours by Gabby Malpas
Gabby Malpas was born in 1966 in Auckland (New Zealand). Adopted when she was a baby, she will later realize that she is Chinese and not “white” like other members of her adoptive family.
ARCHES® Platine, a formula for success!
It is ARCHES® Platine 310 gsm paper that master printer Martin Axon has chosen to reveal the beauty of the photos taken by the famous photographer Michael O’Neill.
Everyone to Belgium to discover José Gietka!
José Gietka is a Belgian painter born in Herstal in 1957 (Liège region). He studied…
Light as a guide
Lauren Collin, a young French visual artist, aged 27, who graduated from the ESAG Penninghen school of graphic arts in 2011, uses a scalpel to bring her materials to life and to sculpt paper.
Paper folds to his bidding!
Giang Dinh, a Vietnamese origamist born in Hue in 1966 is a unique artist, with a pared down, meditative style. He excels at finding the essence of his subject in just a few subtle folds…
Velin d’ARCHES® / ARCHES® Cover
In the world of quality paper, the terms vellum and ARCHES® are inextricably linked. Indeed,…
ARCHES® presents its Expression range
In a context where differentiation, innovation and quality are the major issues in the graphics…
