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The beginnings of beeseye..

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

When we started beeseye in 2006, Matt took himself off to a cottage in Cornwall to begin refining a house style for the beeseye gallery.
One of those first images still hangs on our wall at home as a beautiful glossy acrylic. The image has sold all over the world and, in this one picture, Matt discovered exactly the style he wanted to apply in all the galleries and so the ‘Living Art’ collection.

As one customer described it:

“They’re not straightforward or obvious and yet not completely abstract. You see enough to know what it is, but not too much. And, for me, I think it’s because of this that the images bring back happy memories of good feelings - like running on the beach and sniffing flowers.”

Looking through his archives,  Matt worked out that approximately 1 in 2000 images he takes ends up in the collection. It seems that to get the precise balance between seeing enough but not too much is a very fine line.

Less is more - or was that more is less…

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Perfecting the Art - Printing onto Glass

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

Fine Art on Glass
Made to Your Specifications

The Workshop
19 Grahame Avenue
Pangbourne. RG8 7LF. UK.
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Perfecting the Art - Printing onto Glass
Hi There,

I wanted to share with you our latest project - we’ve just installed this fabulous glass splashback in the kitchen above.

We’ve been working on printing fine art onto glass for some time and we’ve cracked it (not the glass!).

The glass has a patented flexible coating and is toughened for maximum durability and safety. It’s heat, acid and water resistant.

And (this is the clever and different bit) the glass has a low iron content so, when giclée printed the colours stay true to the original image.

Created to withstand the elements, it’s a distinctive addition - inside or outside - anywhere where the image could be subjected to intense heat, light…or even rainstorms!

felicityMade-to-Measure Giclée Printing

At Beeseye, we work with designers, consultants and individuals to produce bespoke fine art decor.

We supply limited edition images too, but when we create finished pieces ourselves, the artist oversees the production of each piece.

We use archival UV-cure inks, the latest giclée print techniques and limited edition images to produce museum quality pieces.

Made to order to suit the space - to virtually any size.

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Beeseye and art consulting firm EDL & Associates arranged for images from Matt Wain’s Living Art collection to be installed as canvas and watercolor limited edition giclée prints in the guest suites of the the new ARIA Resort and Casino, CityCenter, Las Vegas.

Elizabeth Lynch of EDL & Associates explains how the project came about:

“The CityCenter Fine Art Program invited EDL to help them choose the installations for the guest room suites. We have worked with Beeseye before so we knew that Matt Wain’s style, and in particular something from his Living Art collection, would be perfect for the hotel’s suites. Beeseye offered us total exclusivity on the pieces we chose and they kept them for us for two years while we arranged the details. Working with Beeseye was delightful, they are true professionals who really do go the extra mile.”

I hope you like what you’ve seen.

I hope you’ll choose to visit Beeseye to see more.

And I hope you’ll get in touch.

Kindest Regards,

Polly

Polly Harrison
The Beeseye Gallery
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Perfecting the Art - Printing onto Glass
Made-to-Measure Giclée Printing
Fine Art Installations for the ARIA Resort and Casino

Limited Edition Giclée Prints on Acrylic
“When we saw these images we fell in love with them. Beeseye is so careful about how they make the pictures. We really weren’t sure about having a picture printed up on a piece of plastic - it sounded crazy, but we’re so glad we did it. They look amazing - I love the way the light passes through them casting color onto the wall behind. My husband adores one of the pieces - and he doesn’t normally notice such things!”

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HITTING THE LAS VEGAS STRIP! By Polly Harrison

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Matt Wain’s Images Chosen for $40 million Fine Art Program

Images from the Living Art collection are to be part of a significant fine art program in Las Vegas. Las Vegas is home to CityCenter, an $8 billion development opening in the heart of the strip in 2009.  CityCenter will have a fabulous $40 million collection of fine art, with works by acclaimed artists including Maya Lin, Jenny Holzer, Nancy Rubins, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Frank Stella, Henry Moore and Richard Long. 

The Matt Wain images chosen to be part of this extraordinary project are limited editions of 140 each and will be installed in the hotel guest rooms of CityCenter’s Aria Tower Suites.  (see case study http://www.beeseye.co.uk/case_studies_edlart.php)

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