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"Bluebonnet Rhapsody" is one of three paintings by Texas artist Linda Calvert Jacobson licensed to JK Henderson that will be featured on a 2010 line of artist-inspired, limited edition watches.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FEBRUARY 2010
CONTACTS:
LINDA CALVERT JACOBSON
American Artist
830-624-5302
linda@casadelinda.com
SUE BATEMAN
Eaglecrown Productions Ltd.
+44 1394 450397
sue@eaglecrown.com
WILDFLOWER ART BY LINDA CALVERT JACOBSON LICENSED FOR NEW LIMITED-EDITION WATCH SERIES IN THE UK
For the third year, Texas-based artist Linda Calvert Jacobson has licensed her contemporary wildflower paintings to JK Henderson for a line of limited edition, artist-inspired watches. The new designs will be sold on satellite TV shopping channels in the UK starting in May 2010.
Established in 1976, Henderson Watches is one of UK’s leading international watch wholesalers and retailers for licensed brand watches.
The deal was handled by Eaglecrown, an art agency representing Jacobson’s work for the United Kingdom and international market. The fact that JK Henderson has licensed Jacobson’s designs for the third time, proves that art is meeting consumers’ needs, says Sue Bateman, Licensing Manager for Eaglecrown.
“Linda's floral designs are appealing to customers because they are so cheerful and bright,” Bateman says. “The many colours make them easy to wear with all sorts of outfits and complement the colourful clothes that are so fashionable again.”
In addition to the watch deals with JK Henderson, Eaglecrown facilitated the licensing of Jacobson art on a line of greeting cards that were sold in the UK, New Zealand and Australia in 2007-2008. Last year, Jacobson’s watches were also sold on shopping channels in Germany as well as the UK. Bateman sees this as just the beginning.
“We are promoting Linda’s bright flowers designs to textile, apparel and canvas clients,” she says. “We also have great hopes also of finding a home ware license.”
Jacobson signed with Eaglecrown after meeting company representatives at the License 2007 International Expo in New York. Eaglecrown licensing agency, founded in 2001 as a representative agency for Russian palaces and museums, has grown to encompass a library of over 15 million images from the United Kingdom, Russia, Japan, the USA and Europe.
Jacobson’s work may be viewed online www.eaglecrown.com or at www.lindacalvertjacobson.com.
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