The prints, explained

What you're actually buying

Plain words, no art-world talk.

Limited or Studio — what's the difference?

One rule runs the whole shop:

If a painting exists, the print is limited. There's one canvas and only one, so I cap the edition at 25. Every one is signed and numbered by hand. When the 25 are gone, they're gone — I don't reprint. Some of these paintings have already sold and left the country, so the prints are the only way into them now.

If it was born digital, it's a Studio Print. No original painting behind it, so there's no edition to run out. These stay available. I still sign them. They're the ones I made on the iPad, and pretending they're scarce would be a lie you'd smell.

That's it. Limited means there's a painting. Studio means there isn't.

What's giclée?

A fancy French word for a very good inkjet print. It means archival pigment inks instead of the dye in a normal printer — they don't shift colour and they don't fade. Kept out of direct sun, these will outlive both of us.

What's Hahnemühle Photo Rag?

The paper. It's 100% cotton, heavyweight, with a soft matte surface and a slight tooth to it — closer to watercolour paper than photo paper. No shine, no glare. It's what galleries print on, and it makes paint look like paint instead of like a poster.

Printed here in Aotearoa. I don't send your work offshore.

Are they framed?

No. Every print ships unframed.

Two reasons. Glass breaks in transit, and framing is personal — you know your wall better than I do. Take it to any framer and they'll sort you out. A3, A2 and the squares are all standard sizes, so off-the-shelf frames fit fine.

The sizes

A3 — 297 × 420 mm. About two sheets of A4 side by side.
A2 — 420 × 594 mm. Double an A3. A proper wall piece.
420 × 420 mm square — the same height as an A2, just square. Bigger than most people picture.

Measure your wall before you order. Everyone underestimates A2.

How they arrive

Everything ships flat — in a rigid mailer with a backing board, not rolled in a tube. No curl to fight when you get it framed. Tracked, always.

Signed and numbered — what's that mean?

On the limited editions, every print lands in the Pōneke studio before it goes to you. I sign it by hand and write its number on it — 4/25, 17/25, whichever one is yours. That's why it takes a bit longer, and that's the bit you can't get from a poster shop.