Are fine art prints at Magnolia created by photographing and reproducing paintings?
Artists working at Magnolia enjoy a full range of choices and printmaking techniques. When we founded the studio in 1981, our focus was on traditional print media. At this time artists worked fully within the print medium: drawing, scribing, or using any number of printmaking techniques to make the matrices necessary to create an edition of original prints. As time has gone on and digital technology matured, we have developed, concurrent with our work in traditional print media, a wide range of digital techniques that we place at the artist’s disposal. We regard photography and other optical/digital techniques as vital tools available to the artist. This sometimes involves photographing and printing pre-existing images in new formats and on new surfaces. At Magnolia, however, we continue to produce prints that are limited edition originals, not posters.