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Internet Banking
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Art Technical Specifications
You are viewing heirloom quality fine art prints each produced individually in high resolution all to the highest possible standards and composed with meticulous attention to detail in every regard.
We use Ultrachrome™ pigment inks set on high quality UV canvas, acid free cotton rag fine art paper and heavy weight photo paper.
Canvas
Brilliance Chromata white textured 21mil 450gsm Poly-Cotton Blend Matte Canvas using an acid free neutral ph coating and is Archival Certified.
Fine Art Paper
Elegance velvet 23mil 310gsm 100% cotton rag acid and lignin free bright white & water resistant fine art paper
Photo Papers
Vibrance Stipple Finish is a lightly textured heavy-weight 12mil photo paper selected for its unique visual properties.
Vibrance Platinum Gloss is a bright white, high-gloss photo paper that delivers unrivalled colour gamut and D-Max (high photon energy). The best gloss paper we could find in its weight class.
Sealing (optional)
We use Printguard™ UV water resistant lacquer that is formulated for inkjet and water soluble images. Printguard™ enhances UV light resistance and protects ink jet prints from ozone, humidity and other airborne elements.
FISHART Uses Wide Format Printers
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9 members of the Labridae family of wrasses make an interesting and colourful stretched portrait print. Custom size option available.
Customise your art with a personal message
Our prints are presented in a style reminiscent of an ichthyological plate from the scientific journals made during the Great Voyages of Discovery of the 18th & 19th Centuries.
Each has a stylish and discreet title positioned at the top / centre of the artwork. This is where the artwork carries its name or subject matter, artist credit and chronological information.
Selected prints* can be made even more special and unique if we, to your specification , sympathetically incorporate your short personal or business message into the title text - example below
To David Love Victoria - MMXI
*Note: Custom sizing option applies to all prints except Limited Editions - contact us for further information.
Custom Size Service
We will produce your print to any size you specify with due regard to the aspect ratio (width x height) of your selected artwork - if you would like to know more please contact us
Shipping
Artworks other than customised or personalised versions are usually sent same or following day. Tee's are usually sent same day.
Once printed your artwork is very carefully handled, wrapped then packed and sent unmounted in a very sturdy 80mm dia. mailing tube or one of our custom made 160mm dia. blue tubes depending on the print media.
Multiple prints in any medium can be shipped both tube sizes.
Delivery
Purchases are sent via New Zealand Courier Post and are insured.
Delivery times
New Zealand + Australia 3-10 days from dispatch
USA + UK and other international destinations 7-14 days from dispatch
Customers said in their own words . . .
MEDIA Fishart & Heath on the Web Links open in new page
Eric Heath - Stuff Dominion Post - Cartoonist's New Fascination - Jan 2011
Eric Heath - Stuff Dominion Post - Drawn to Artistic Endeavours - July 2010
Eric Heath - Scoop News - The Art of Fish - A Fish e-Business - Nov 2008
Fishart - Stuff New Zealand Fishing News - Hiwi the Kiwi - Nov 2009
Fishart - Stuff New Zealand Fishing News - Hiwi The Kiwi - April 2010
Fishart - NZ Girl - Buy Arts Insider - Our Favourite Things - Dec 2008
Eric Heath - Stuff Dominion Post - Veterans Line up in Photo Quest - Aug 2009
Eric Heath - Otago Daily Times - Loco Portrait Joins Museum Collection - Jun 2009
Eric Heath - Artel Gallery + Store
Eric Heath - On Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia
Eric Heath - The New Zealand Cartoon Archive
Eric Heath - Wings Over New Zealand - Forum Page
Eric Heath - New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts - Wellington Harbour Ships
Eric Heath - New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts - Academy Elected Artists
Eric Heath - National Library of New Zealand - Cartoonists and the Campaign
Eric Heath - Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand - Cousteau at Moruroa Atoll Cartoon
Eric Heath - Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand - Works by Eric Heath
Eric Heath - New Zealand History Online - Divided Loyalties Springbok Tour Cartoon
Eric Heath - New Zealand History Online - Ferry Strike Cartoon
Eric Heath - Oxted Resources Ltd - Art Collection
Eric Heath - Wheelers Books - Books by Eric Heath
Eric Heath - Fishpond Books - Books by Eric Heath
Eric Heath - Auckland Art Gallery - Cartoon
Eric Heath - New Zealand Post - Cartoonist Stamps
Eric Heath - CenSeam NIWA - Meet Maz Holman
Eric Heath - RNZAF - Forum - Who can remember Eric Heath
Eric Heath - Flickr - Eric Heath with Maori Television Crew
FISH IN NZ HISTORY
Maori legend has it that the North Island of New Zealand was hauled up “like a giant fish”.
AD1769 NATURAL HISTORY and scientifically based study and recording of New Zealand marine life began with Captain Cook's arrival in this year.
AD1874 The oceanographic research vessel H.M.S. Challenger visited New Zealand in June and July of this year as part of its global circumnavigational voyage of discovery. As a result, 220 new marine species were discovered in our waters.
AD1887 the first B.Sc. degree granted in New Zealand was given to a marine biologist, Charles Chilton, by Otago University.
AD1926 A book about fishing written by American author Zane Grey and titled Tales of the Angler's Eldorado, New Zealand recounted his fishing adventures in this year and helped put New Zealand on the world map as an exotic travel destination.
AD 1965 Eric Heath illustrates and publishes the first of a long running series of books on New Zealand marine life, the first in NZ printed in full colour. Heath paints over 900 different species of which around 400 are depicted in one form or another on this website.
FISH IN WORLD HISTORY
Rock art depicting fish traps in the El-Hosh area of Upper Egypt have been dated to at least 8,000 years ago. It is the oldest artwork ever recorded in the Nile Valley. A sample taken from a typical fish-trap design was radiocarbon dated at 5,900 to 5,300 B.C.
This date provides a minimum-age estimate for the petroglyphs.
Pliny the Elder or Caius Plinius Secundus (AD 23-79) a Roman officer, author and scientist, in the first century after Christ, relates that the multitude of Tuna which met the fleet of Alexander The Great (356-323BC) on one occasion was so vast that, only by advancing in battle lines, as on an enemy, were the ships able to make their way through the school. (?)
Ichthyology, or the study of fish comes from the Greek word for fish ICHTHYS.
The tackle and bait business supporting recreational fishing has been around as early as AD 1600.
The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton (b.9 Aug 1593 – d.19 Dec 1683) was first published in the year AD1653. No book apart from the Bible and the Book of Common Prayer has been re-printed as often. It remains in print.
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