Information about our Canvas Wall Art

Welcome to our wall art, canvas & print galleries.

Canvas Art, for Fashionable Walls...
Stretched canvas art is a modern, fashionable method of mounting and displaying contemporary art, photography and digitally created images and pictures. Our canvas art consists of a deep, solid wooden frame (known as a 'stretcher') with a printed or painted canvas stretched tightly over it and fastened on the reverse. This creates a modern, chunky, frameless image. Canvases where the image is also continued onto the sides are often referred to as 'gallery wrapped' canvases. We don't mass produce our canvas wall art, in fact we don't even carry any art in stock. Instead we individually print and hand craft each customer's canvas to order in our own studio. We use only the very best materials available, and we use traditional stretched canvas construction methods. We truly believe our canvas wall art to be the very best quality available in the UK today.
How is our Canvas Art made?
Our art is created using a method know as 'gicleé' printing. Gicleé (ghee-clay) is a coined art term. It is a French word which literally means 'to spit' or 'spray'. Gicleé prints are produced using very sophisticated inkjet technology that can produce microscopic droplets of coloured inks that are sprayed onto the canvas. The special inks combine to produce a continuous tone of high quality colour output that doesn't suffer from the dot pattern effects associated with traditional, offset lithography printing (as used in printing books and magazines). We use the latest wide format digital gicleé printers from Epson that utilise special ultrachrome inks. These cutting edge inks produce superb, bright colours and are lightfast for up to 75 years.
We print our artwork and images onto the highest quality canvas. We use a smooth textured, 350gsm cotton based luxurious artist-grade canvas that has been specifically developed for creating museum and art gallery quality gicleé prints.
Once the ink has dried we then hand stretch the print over a chunky 44mm deep (1¾ inches) solid wooden frame. These specially constructed frames are made up using 'stretcher bars'. These stretcher bars are made from extra strong, solid, kiln dried European pine, and are laminated to minimise warping and shrinking. The specially machined corner joints allow the frame to be 'stretched' by tapping small wooden wedges into them. This means that if over time your canvas print loses its tautness it can be tightened up easily. Beware, many other canvas art manufacturers simply wrap their prints over cheap, fixed frames, not stretcher bars. Wood and canvas are natural materials that can expand and shrink under different environmental conditions (e.g. in a centrally heated house or an air-conditioned office). After a while canvas art may lose their tautness due to the frame shrinking or the canvas giving slightly. Unless the canvas print is mounted on a proper stretcher frame you will not be able to re-tighten it and it will take on a baggy appearance.
The canvas corners are trimmed and folded neatly, then we securely fix the canvas on the rear by hand using staples. Once fully fixed we tap in the wooden corner wedges to make the canvas taut, and then neatly cover all the staples on the rear with smooth framers tape.
We then carefully wrap the finished artwork in protective bubble wrap and box it in specially constructed shipping boxes to ensure your artwork arrives with you in perfect condition. We then ship the canvas out to you using Royal Mail Parcelforce, your art is fully insured in transit and you can track the progress of your delivery online.