Imperial Stout

Matthew Johnson is the force behind Seventhfury Studios and Seventh.Ink Shirts and Apparel. His artistic skills include illustration, graphic design, painting, and photography. Raised mostly in Minnesota, he married his high school sweetheart and they moved out of state in search of adventure. In 2008 they moved to Syracuse, NY and then in 2009 they moved down to Tampa, Florida, where they had their first child and currently reside. Giclée (pronounced "zhee-clay") is a neologism for the process of making fine art prints from a digital source using ink-jet printing. The word "giclée" is derived from the French language word "le gicleur" meaning "nozzle", or more specifically "gicler" meaning "to squirt, spurt, or spray". It was coined in 1991 by Jack Duganne, a printmaker working in the field, to represent any inkjet-based digital print used as fine art. The intent of that name was to distinguish commonly known industrial "Iris proofs" from the type of fine art prints artists were producing on those same types of printers. The name was originally applied to fine art prints created on Iris printers in a process invented in the early 1990s but has since come to mean any high quality ink-jet print and is often used in galleries and print shops to denote such prints.