Fine art printing & scanning from the heart of Frome’s art scene.
Peradam is a giclée printing and high-resolution scanning service run by printing and digital imaging technician, Jennifer Kyte.
Mount // Peradam
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The highest quality giclée printing, using 12-colour printing technology, archival papers, and high resolution flatbed scanning up to A1 size.
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Peradam started out as part of Mount Art Services, named after René Daumal’s unfinished novella “Mount Analogue”.
Now focused solely on printing and scanning, the name of my new identity, Peradam, is based on the crystal-like objects only found on Mount Analogue >>>>
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One finds here, very rarely in the low lying areas, more frequently as one goes farther up, a clear and extremely hard stone that is spherical and varies in size—a kind of curved crystal, called a “peradam”. The clarity of this stone is so great and its index of refraction so close to that of air that, despite the crystal’s great density, the unaccustomed eye hardly perceives it. But to anyone who seeks it with sincere desire and true need, it reveals itself by its sudden sparkle, like that of dewdrops. The peradam is the only substance, the only material object whose value is recognized by the guides of Mount Analogue. Therefore, it is the standard of all currency, as gold is for us.
— René Daumal
“Our name was inspired by our darkroom technician at The Arts Institute at Bournemouth, Gareth. He taught us to “go over the mountain” when altering colour values to achieve a neutral photographic print. If a print had a green colour cast, we had to add enough magenta to get a magenta cast and then work back towards towards green until reaching neutral (the peak of the mountain). I stick to this rule when I’m colour-matching prints to original artworks. Back then, we applied this rule to many other aspects of our business, pushing beyond where we think the peak is so that we know the extremes of our limitations. That’s still the case for me now, even though I’ve simplified what I’m doing.”