HOME - CONTACT - ORDERING WORK - WHO ARE WE ? - EVERYTHING ELSE - MARK LLOYD WILLIAMS WORK - MURIEL WILLIAMS WORK EDITIONING: A pretentious way of saying how many of something an artist makes... You'll hear the phrases "limited" and "open" edition. Here's what they mean. There's often confusion between these phrases and "original prints" which are dealt with HERE, ON OUR PRINT TECHNIQUES PAGE. LIMITED EDITIONS There's a limit to the number of copies we produce. Once we've sold out of an edition, no more prints of any format will ever be made. Though we reserve the right to reproduce images for publicity or information purposes: (which means magazine/newspaper articles, books, etc.) We now only sell work printed by hand-made methods as limited editions. each print in the edition is titled and given a serial number, usually shown like this: TITLE / PRINT NUMBER / TOTAL NUMBER OF PRINTS MADE usually near the artist's signature & title.
(example: 36/295 written here means this is print number 36 out of a total number of 295 prints of "SUNFLOWER (I)" produced) why do artists produce limited editions ? because they have rarity value. So we charge more. If an artist becomes well known, the laws of supply and demand dictate the price of any item, so prices may increase. (but then, just like any other investment, they may go down !) OPEN EDITIONS There's no limit - we print as many as people want to buy. Open editions may or may not be signed (ours are) but they should NEVER be numbered. We believe the practice of numbering an open edition, whilst rare amongst professionals, is inherently misleading. Why do artists produce open editions ? because they allow the largest numbers of customers to buy a particular piece of work. It's our "bread and butter" |
