| The Cotswold Pictures
brand, is our largest
limited edition publisher with a wide variety of art both based on photographs
and other art forms. In most cases images are available in a selected size but
often you will find a choice of both framing and glass used. The quantities in
an edition varies, allowing a choice of editions where the cost has been
kept down to those that are produced as small editions and may be particularly
attractive for collectors. The intention is to widen the range of work
covered, particularly the number and types of art featured. The photography of
originals, colour management and production however will always be controlled to
maintain the highest possible quality.
The search is now for a wider range of quality art and you will find new talent being discovered as well as artists
whose work you get to appreciate having new images available from time to time.
If you know of artists that you feel should be featured then suggest to them
that they see the Cotswold Pictures website page for artists under information.
One of the first special ranges involves the
re-mastering of old colour photographs showing England, Scotland, Wales and
Ireland as it was at the end of the 1800's and first few years of the 1900's.
These offer a near unique look, especially as colour photography was not
invented until the 1950's. This has been achieved without resorting to
developing a time machine due to a specific process that involved taking a black
and white photograph and making very many notes on the colours of the scene and
then hand colouring the images. A process then involving up to 19 special types
of stone to publish the images, the exact techniques being a secret process at
the time and since lost. Just over 3,500 of these images have been scanned in
great detail from originals, edited slightly to overcome the effects of time and
are now represented in several forms by Cotswold Pictures produced in a format
that should last for several more generations at least.
Take a look at the extensive collection available
now and expect this to grow rapidly over the next year or so.
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