Antique Delaware Mike Hinge - New Zealand / American Illustrator - Print of MAORI TATTOO STYLE Dragon, with amazing techno printed circuits throughout Whale Print - Whale Watching - Burlington New Jersey - Horrible Sea Monster (Copy)

Treasures from THE ARTISTS & ILLUSTRATORS COLLECTION at The Grand Review.  Print size 24 x 16, and works with a standard 24 x 16 frame, or custom framed as you see fit.

Mike Hinge was a much in demand working illustrator.  A regular for science fiction monthlies and paperbacks, much advertising in general, album covers and promotional materials.

In New York in the 60s, he made enormous kinetic sculptures, all now disappeared after not being able to keep up with storage costs.

Life's crazy circles.

He started life in the South Pacific, and that enlivens his work a great deal.  Sometimes in pen and ink, though very often working in bright 'Magic Markers', I will have to source imagery of his other work to fill out the accompanying print, for reference.

His always present interest in science and technology, the future, and the indigenous culture and art of his native New Zealand come together in this wonderful drawing, the original in our collection for 20 plus years.  NOTE that the lines in the dragon are filled in with images suggesting printed circuits, a new technology at the time this was drawn.  The FUTURE!!!  This again being decades before popular Western culture discovered the magic and delight of South Pacific tattoo styles.

He died, from what I hear, unfortunately bitter and paranoid, and despite the efforts of the many who loved him, he closed the world out for the most of the last years of his life.

I acquired the original drawing of this fabulous dragon from one of those friends.  The irony is on one hand, Mike's ghost might kick and scream that someone is selling his work.  On the other, and the way we've approached this, is that through this one example we keep him and his work alive.

I'm good right there.  Enjoy!

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A NOTE ON OUR PROCESS, OUR CHOICES AND THE QUALITY OF THE GRAPHIC CRAFTSMANSHIP THAT GOES INTO OUR PRINTS.

Every print we deem exciting enough to present to the public via our Etsy store or available here at our studio has gone through a number of steps.  The first of those is always discovering and falling in love with an obscure image, always an original that we can hold in our hands.  That image is speaking to us, sometime screaming “Don’t leave me here.  See what I am, what I was, what I can be, what I SHOULD be!”

There is a real sense of excitement involved, and a great many smiles and knowing grins when we make that deal and bring that ancient print, that battered photo, that scrap of ephemera that contains some scrap of genius from an unknown commercial artist home with us, knowing already how we mean to approach its restoration.

There is the heady promise of a further hunt just as real as what drags a weekend fisherman out of bed at 3AM to work a favorite brook as we start our research, looking for that great backstory, and both ready and willing to tumble down as many rabbit holes as are revealed to us to get that story.

Then there is a meticulous digital restoration that is as often as much fun as riding a vintage Moto Guzzi on a winding coastal road.  I don’t care if that sounds crazy, it really is like jumping in the saddle!  So many choices, so many chances to take to subtly or spectacularly give new life to otherwise permanently obscure images.

This dedication and the ongoing rush of joy in the accomplishment of it, and the opportunity to share the results in our studio and here on Etsy, is the fire of passion that keeps these engines roaring. We make every effort to ensure our customers are not just satisfied but thrilled, and we happily stand 100% behind our work.