Supercat

I was born in Valencia (Spain), February 3 of 1974, I was raised amongst a family that loved drawing. My vocation is being an illustrator, I spend almost all my childhood with a pencil in my hand. After studying in several academies and after I finished High School I began to study my career in the Arts and Crafts School at Valencia, in this school I studied Graphic Design and Illustration. This career illuminates and defines my drawing inclination, and gives me a clear artistic direction towards Illustration. By the meantime, l earned a design scholarship at Valencia Multinational Porcelain Company. After 15 years, I’m leading a Decoration Department at this same company. At the same time, in my free time I’m a *Falla* designer in my town and I also illustrate books for kids or teenagers. 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.