Artist Bio: Jane Seymour

The daughter of a British obstetrician and his Dutch wife, Jane Seymour was born in Hillingdon, England and raised in Wimbledon. An Officer of the British Empire (OBE) recipient Ms. Seymour has achieved worldwide renown through her stellar career, which spans dance, Broadway, stage, motion pictures, television, literature, art and fashion. She has acted in classical plays, performed in radio dramas and received much recognition for her work. Ms. Seymour was granted a Best Actress Golden Globe for her role in the acclaimed ABC-TV adaptation of Steinbeck's "East of Eden". She also won an Emmy Award as Best Supporting Actress for her role in ABC-TV's Aristotle Onassis biopic "The Richest Man Alive". Awarded a Golden Globe for her role as "Dr. Quinn", Jane Seymour blazed a trail for the return of family-worthy programming to television. Most recently, Ms. Seymour appeared on the Emmy nominated program "Dancing with the Stars".

Jane's love of art and colour has led her to find great success as a painter. When she is not acting, writing or designing Ms. Seymour can be found in her painting studio. Ms. Seymour began painting over a decade ago in response to a period of personal challenge. Art became the expression of a very private healing process and she emerged from this experience as an accomplished, passionate painter.Today, Jane sketches and paints at her Malibu studio, on movie sets and during her travels. Over the past eighteen years she has created an intimate world of delicate watercolours, vibrant oil paintings, pastels, bronze sculptures and has accepted select private commissions.

With a thriving artistic career and her own art gallery in Los Angeles, Jane has exhibited her work at many fine art galleries across the United States over the past nine years. By continually redeveloping her technique, style and subject matter, Ms. Seymour continues to reach new artistic levels. Her art also serves as inspiration for designs that include an exclusive collection of handbags and accessories. In 2008 Ms. Seymour teamed with Kay Jewelers to design a special jewelry collection. Inspired by one of Jane's original paintings of two hearts connected and open at either end, the exclusive design symbolizes boundless and unconditional love.

Actively involved in numerous charitable causes, Ms. Seymour is a member of the American Red Cross National Celebrity Cabinet. Her involvement with the national organization Childhelp garnered Jane their "Woman of the World" award. This award is just one of many honours bestowed upon Ms. Seymour for her social and charitable endeavours. Jane also acts as official spokesperson for Camp Soaring Eagle where she assists in raising awareness and funds for what will be the only year-round, dedicated medical camp in the Southwest. In addition to her charitable engagement with such notable organizations, Jane Seymour and her husband James Keach have partnered yet again as founders of the J&J Foundation to benefit children in need.

Ms. Seymour mounted her first one-woman museum exhibition in 2004 at the Butler Institute of American Art. Additionally, Jane was selected as one of the official painters of the 2006 Torino Winter Olympics, the official artist of the 2006 Naples Winter Wine Festival, the 2008 Beijing Olympics and most recently the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. Ms. Seymour continues to raise funds and donate her artwork to numerous local and national charities, which help children in need, raise awareness for women's heart health and champion various other important issues dear to her heart.

Jane Seymour currently resides in Malibu, California with her husband James Keach and their children.

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What does the word giclée mean?

The contemporary Giclée has become a valuable part of the limited edition fine art world. "Giclée" is a French term which means to spray ink. The pronunciation of giclée is "zhee-clay."

Essentially, a giclée print is the reproduction of an original work of art (created by conventional means, such as painting, drawing, etc.) using a highly specialized inkjet printer.

Giclées have a higher resolution than offset lithographs and the dynamic color range is greater than that of a serigraph. Giclées are created by a method of printing in which the image is scanned and digitally enhanced on a computer to match the original fine art. The image is then sent to a high-resolution inkjet printer, which sprays millions of microscopic droplets of ink onto various substrates to create an image with smooth tonal gradation. These unique jets are able to vary the width of the ink stream to as small as 1/100th the width of human hair. In the art world this is generally regarded as the highest quality reproduction available.

Despite the fact that artists were experimenting with this medium as far back as the late 1970s, fine art inkjet printing emerged as an art form in the early 1990s. The term giclée was originally only applied to a very specific form of printing: the output from the Iris inkjet printer (more specifically the Iris 3024, 3047, or 3047G).Today, giclée can refer to any digital fine art canvas print output on a quality inkjet printer. Such well-known brands as Epson, MacDermid Colorspan and Hewlett Packard have high end 6 – 12 color printers that are used to make fine art giclées.

The entire process of production to achieve the final fine art giclée is an artistic endeavor within itself, requiring a great deal of patience and skill. A professional quality giclée starts with a high resolution digital photograph. This file must then be color corrected and adjusted to match the original artwork.

Matching the final print to the original painting is a demanding process, because the digital colors of an image (which are composed of three colors: red, green and blue) must be adjusted to look true once printed on canvas with the printer (which uses four colors: cyan, magenta, yellow and black). This requires the use of a colorist and is overseen by the artist. The file preparation and proofing can take anywhere from a couple of hours to weeks, depending on the challenges posed by each image.

Printing is an integral part of the giclée process, and care must be taken to ensure the best result possible. It is essential to use a high quality printer with professional grade nozzles. These nozzles are able to apply ink dots as small as 1/100th the width of human hair. Giclées are printed on specially treated canvas using archival inks and then lacquered to increase their colorfastness and longevity.

Today, images reproduced using the Giclée Process are of such a high quality that they can be found on display at museums around the world, including The Louvre, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim.

What makes a giclée valuable?

As far as artistic processes are concerned, the giclée process is very new, and subsequently consumers may have questions about how valuable giclées are. Here are some of the reasons why an art buyer should seriously consider purchasing a giclée.