Information about our Canvas Wall Art

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We don't mass produce canvas prints. We print and hand-make each piece to order using the best quality materials - artists grade cotton canvas, rather than the more common polyester, and 38mm deep pine frames, rather than the cheaper and lighter fir. By stretching an image tightly over the frame, we create a chunky, frameless image. We take pride in our work and pay attention to the smallest details - even the back of our prints are finished with framers tape, rather than leaving all the fastenings and handiwork visible.
how is our canvas art made?
Our art is created using gicleé printing. Gicleé (ghee-clay) is a French word meaning 'to spit' or 'spray'. Gicleé prints are made using sophisticated inkjet technology that sprays microscopic droplets of coloured inks onto the canvas. The method produces a continuous tone of high quality colour that doesn't suffer from the dot pattern effects associated with traditional, offset lithography printing (as used in printing books and magazines). Importantly, our Epson printers and inks produce superb, bright colours and are lightfast for up to 75 years.
We print our artwork and images onto a smooth-textured, cotton canvas, developed for creating museum and art gallery quality pieces.
We then hand-stretch the print over a chunky 38mm deep (1.5 inches) solid pine frame, designed to minimise warping and shrinking. Wood and canvas are natural materials and will expand and shrink under different environmental conditions (eg a centrally heated house or an air-conditioned office). After a while, your art may lose its tautness due to the frame shrinking or the canvas giving slightly. Unless it is mounted on a proper stretcher frame, you will not be able to re-tighten it and it will become baggy. Our frames are made in such a way that they can be re-stretched by tapping small wooden wedges into them - so your canvas can be tightened up easily. Many other prints are wrapped over cheap, fixed frames, not stretcher bars - once canvas goes baggy over these fixed frames, it can't be put right.
Once stretched and wrapped, we securely fix the canvas on the rear, by hand, using staples. The wooden corner wedges are tapped in to make the canvas taut, and we then cover all the staples with framers tape.
We wrap your finished artwork in protective bubble wrap and box it to ensure your artwork arrives with you in perfect condition. We then ship the canvas out to you via courier - your art is fully insured in transit.