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November 2009
Paul Thurlby (www.paulthurlby.com) is having great sucess with his limited edition "Alphabet" range of illustrations. Rave reviews by Sunday Times journalist and author India Knight (www.indiaknight.posterous.com) certainly help. The limited edition prints are available for sale from his web site.
Paul Thurlby A

September 2009
Judy Barnes (http://judybarnes.idshosting.co.uk) launched her permanent exhibition. "The task was to paint the 4 Elements + Day and Night, on 10ft and 12ft lengths of oak tree trunks to signify The Beginning of Creation - I only used the images within the grain instead of imposing shapes on to the surface." They are on permanent exhibition at the Pilgrimage Gardens of St.Cleer, Cornwall.
Judy Barnes

June 2009
Paul Thurlby (www.paulthurlby.com/) and Nishant Choksi (www.nishantchoksi.com) are amoung two illustrators we work with who have had their work featured as backgrounds for a new iPhone game. You can read more at Paul Thurlby's blog www.paulthurlby.blogspot.com."
iPhone app

May 2009
The Dot Foundry was pleased to attend the 2009 Fine Art Trade Guild Awards ceremony this year in Coventry and also to be one of the four nominees in the Print Quality category. Sian Buckland said "It was a great night and one I'll look forward to again - we were all thrilled to be selected as one of the final four and we'll be going for it again next year!"
Industry Award

December 2008
Georgina Rambton and her stand at the Dublin Art Fair.

November 2008
The Dot Foundry produces a series of Limited Edition prints commisiond by Chapter Arts (www.chapter.org) in Cardiff.

James Aldridge had a major exhibition at Chapter in 2005 and has recently completed a new work for the restaurant at Tate Modern. He is known for his fantastical paintings that embrace the symbols and imagery of good and evil, folklore, and the beauty and strength of nature.

Pete Fowler has recreated his striking painting that covered the whole of one wall of Chapter’s bar in November 2007. Known for the weird and magical creatures from his world of Monsterism Island, Fowler’s wide range of work includes record sleeves for Super Furry Animals and Magic Numbers.

Double Oscar-nominated Joanna Quinn is one of Britain’s most distinctive and critically acclaimed animators. Her infamous, larger-than-life heroine Beryl is featured in her artwork for Chapter which is drawn from her latest multi-award-winning film, Dreams and Desires - Family Ties. Joanna is based at Chapter.

September 2008
The Dot Foundry captures it's largest piece to date with the 380 Megepixel BetterLight scanback. Measuring 3 metres by 2 metres, the piece by James Aldridge was captured in preparation for a Limited Edition print commisioned by Chapter Arts.

January 2008
Glyn Evans exhibited at the Welsh Senedd this month. This is part of a series of exhibitions by this well known photographer over the coming months.
Glyn Evans at the Senedd

November 2007
Ellen Groth Reddie attended the "Art of Digital" show in San Diego. We were really pleased to see one of our prints in this world class showcase for digital art!
Ellen Groth Reddie in San Diego

More about Ellen's work can be found at http://www.artoonfactory.co.uk

May 2007
Tess Cooling Calligraphy. Tessie is an artistic calligrapher who designs original pieces of art using poetry, biblical quotes and other words of inspiration. The original pieces are executed on Somerset rough textured water colour paper and finished with hand embossing and gold or silver leaf. Tessie has Limited Edition prints produced by The Dot Foundry on archival Somerset Velvet paper. "I am so delighted to have discovered The Dot Foundry. They offer a reliable and friendly service producing high quality prints at very reasonable prices. I hand finish each of these prints with embossing and gold leaf. The prints are a superb representation of the original pieces. Discovering The Dot Foundry has allowed my work to become widely available and my exhibitions now consist entirely of limited edition prints".
Tessie Cooling

More about Tessie's work can be found at http://www.cooligraphy.co.uk/

November 2006
"This is Make Believe" hosted a solo show at the Brahm Gallery in Leeds this month.

Further information can be found at http://www.thisismakebelieve.co.uk

October 2006
We were pleased to attend the preview for the Tigerrific exibition in Shoreditch hosted by Dave Richardson. Tigerrific's purpose is twofold. One, to make as many images of tigers as possible accessible and two, to raise money to make sure the tiger survives in the wild. This first in a series of Exhibitions "Stripe a Light" featured the iconic beauty of the magnificent beasts using the imagry of extremly enlarged asian matchbox prints. The Dot Foundry was pleased to print the Limited Edition Giclee Prints on the highest quality Hahnemuhle Photo Rag 308 GSM paper for Dave Richardson.
Stripe a light!

Tigerrific has a long term and worthy goal - further information can be found at http://www.tigerrific.com/

August 2006 New Products and Services Launched
We now offer an improved range of products and services to artists and photographers. Canvas stretching and a full picture mounting service is now available. We can also provide your prints in archival quality polypropylene bags for presentation or point of sale display.