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Fine Art America is one of the largest, most-respected giclee printing companies in the world with over 40 years of experience producing museum-quality prints.   All of our art prints are produced on state-of-the-art, professional-grade Epson printers.

We use acid-free papers and canvases with archival inks to guarantee that your art prints last a lifetime without fading or loss of color.   Paper prints include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting.   Canvas prints include a 2.5" white border to allow for future stretching on stretcher bars.

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Sonja Olson"s latest work speaks indirectly to the natural human instinct to create patterns, from micro to macro, and to see them in everything from clouds to constellations. More directly, the overall composition of each work in the series belies the simple idea of pattern by presenting an expressive, multi-planed and ambiguous picture, but still works as part of a series, which creates an inexact pattern of repetition and theme. The urge to create, and then do it over and over again, whether widgets, clothing, or floors in a high-rise, is to some degree the story of western civilization since the industrial revolution. The dress patterns embody the need for all of us to adhere to the conventions of society, or those of our particular microcosm or niche, while the introduction of other elements, in this case quasi-architectural, disrupt the patterns and create ambiguity among them, serving the rebellious needs of autonomy and individual creativity.

Biography Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Sonja Olson grew up surrounded by the wide-open spaces and big skies of the Canadian prairies. Artistic expression has always been key to Sonja’s experience of the world. She discovered the potter’s wheel early on, and after graduation from high school began to study pottery seriously. At the University of Manitoba Sonja majored in ceramics and photography, and went on to work as a professional photographer and potter. After achieving a Bachelor of Art Education in 1983, Sonja became an Art Teacher and has taught art in Winnipeg, Manitoba and Victoria, BC. In 2003 she took a painting course from Victoria artist Brian Simon's and has never looked back. She fell in love with the...

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