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.
