digigraphs

Sue Raikes and Adrian Moyes

Digigraphs may, but need not, use photographs - as inspiration, texture or shape. Many of our digigraphs are abstract images; some of them are hand drawings on a computer, some scanned images such as leaves of material, some originated (often a long way back) in photographs.

We're not sure exactly what the definition of a digigraph is, nor where the boundaries are with graphic art, digital art and so on. Maybe digigraphy is, or will become over time, a separate category of art , or maybe it won't.

Currently, the term is also used in construction work and in dentistry equipment. The term Giclee is sometimes used, but it refers also, and perhaps primarily, to inkjet printed versions of artwork (no matter how they are produced originally).

So we'll stick to digigraphs - we don't claim to have invented the term, we just use it because it's useful to describe our art - and this page gives some examples of it. We're keen to share our ideas with others and to learn from others' experience. Please contact us if you'd like to.

Click here to look at the digigraphs of Nobel prize-winner Dr Roger Guillemin.

This Website shows some of the images we are currently working on. As you can see, we are experimenting with different styles - a spectrum running from quite photographic photo-montages at one end, to more abstract computer-paintings at the other. Click here for Sue Raikes' digigraphs; click here for Adrian Moyes' digigraphs.