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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.

Woodcut of Erfurt from the Nuremberg Chronicle

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, watercolour on ARCHES® paper

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.

Vaults and pillars III, watercolor by Vera Billing

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 Toronto. Canadian artist, he has had nearly 500 full-page color cartoons, all rendered on ARCHES® Watercolour 140 lb cold pressed paper using Dr. Ph. Martin’s aniline dyes and published in

A mysterious wedding announcement card…

Not long ago in Greece Alex Tsiavos discovered a book of music hidden in a drawer in an old table. Inside this book there was a wedding announcement card dating from 1937. It is printed on 31.5 x 20 cm Velin d’ARCHES® 130 gsm announcement

ARCHES^®, Entreprise du Patrimoine Vivant

ARCHES® has recently been granted “Entreprise du Patrimoine Vivant” (Living Heritage Company) status, in recognition of its ancestral know-how in the field of high quality paper making. It therefore joins a prestigious club whose member include famous French names such as Hermès, Cristalleries Saint-Louis, Baccarat,

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.