Her reputation

became firmly

 established first in Quebec when, in 1986, she illustrated Arlette Cousture's best seller,'Les Filles de Caleb", which sold more than a million copies. The 90's marked a major turning point in her career with an extraordinary performance on the American market with record-breaking sales of more that one limited edition per 250 American households, making Chantal Poulin the most collected Canadian artist in the world. In addition, she received the "Collector's Choice New Artist of the Year" award at the International Collectibles Exposition held in Chicago in 1997 and is one of the two canadian artist, with Robert Bateman, currently published by a major american limited edition publisher.

Chantal Poulin's paintings that depict the innocence and openness of young children in serene settings is currently limited to about four oil paintings a year, some of which may require up to six months work. Fortunately, her fine art can be enjoyed by the general public and collectors through limited edition reproductions on paper, canvas and on Limoges porcelain. These editions are distributed in Canada, United States, Europe and other countries around the world.

Le Giclée
The Giclée printing process is born from a blend of the small scale printing techniques used by skilled craftsmen with the most advenced technologies in artwork reproduction. It allows artists and art distributors to offer prints of a quality ever since sought after, in limited editions, on the best papers of an unmatched visual definition and without a visible thread at the naked eye.

Each print is produced one at the time,
an hour is required to print a sheet. Already a few years old, the term Giclée refers to a spray of microscopic droplets (more than four millions per second) on paper or on a different type of support. Each pieces demands a extended preparation work to obtain a perfect result, craftsmen's signature at l'Atelier Giclart.

Collaboration with the artist:
a great complicity warrants the respect of the artist's vision and the unique character of his work. All the subtleties and shade are reproduced with a maximum of accurateness.

A worldwide recognised and accepted process.
Giclée prints already take place in numerous internationally well-known galleries and many museums, among others: le Louvre in Paris, the British Museum in London and the Metropolitain in New-York.

The exceptional quality of this process already
makes it the standard of the next millenium and leaves far behind the limited capacities of photolithography and serigraphy.

Advantages :

Printing at request: per unit or per edition
Format: up to 34 inches x 36 inches
Watercolor paper ( 300 à 500 gr.)
Test print prior to final print ( B.A.T.)
Limited editions, signed and numbered by the artist
Certificate of authentification with each print
Higher value than standard photolithographies
Optional texts or logos