Office commissions
Paintings for an office, commissioned properly
Where the wall, the brand guidelines and the purchase-order system all have an opinion before the painting does.
Office commissions fail for reasons that have nothing to do with painting. A canvas bought for a meeting room turns out to be the wrong proportion for the wall behind the presenter, so it appears in every video call as a postage stamp on a large empty field. A brand colour chosen on a screen turns acid under the room's downlights. Or the painting is right and the invoice cannot be processed, because nobody asked for a purchase-order number until the canvas was finished.
So we work in a different order from a private commission: wall first, then size, then colour, then photograph. Send a picture of the wall with something for scale and tell us the ceiling height, and we will return a mock-up with the canvas drawn into the room at the right size, which is the only honest way to judge a canvas before it exists. Everything after that is the same craft as any other portrait.
Brand colour is not a paint colour
A brand guideline gives a hex value or a Pantone number, and neither of those is a pigment. Cadmium red is opaque and warm, alizarin crimson is transparent and cool, and the mixture that matches a screen will usually be duller, because a screen emits light and paint reflects it. We can get close — close enough that nobody in the company will query it — but we will not promise an exact match, and we say so in writing before you brief anyone internally.
The other half of the problem is the room's light. The same canvas looks warm under 2700K lamps and grey under a north-facing window, and an office at nine in the morning is a different colour environment from the same office at eight at night. Tell us what the lighting is, or send a photograph taken with the lights on and the blinds as they normally sit, and the colour is mixed against that rather than against a swatch.
The wall decides the size, not the photograph
In a meeting room the painting usually hangs behind the person facing the camera, which means it is seen at an angle, at video resolution, for an hour at a time. Large shapes and few details survive that; a busy composition turns to mush. It also means aspect ratio matters more than area: a 36 × 48 in portrait canvas on a wide wall behind a table leaves two awkward gaps, where three 24 × 36 in canvases in a row fill the same wall properly.
Practical limits apply. An eight-foot ceiling with a table and a screen leaves around four feet of wall, so anything above 30 × 40 in starts to crowd the room; a double-height lobby swallows a 36 × 48 in canvas and makes it look modest. We will tell you when the size you have in mind is too large for the room, because that conversation costs nothing now and a great deal later.
Sets, sign-off and the paperwork
Sets are the usual answer for a workplace. Three canvases of the same size, planned as a group and hung with equal gaps at the same centre height, look intentional where one canvas looks stranded. The set has to be designed as a single thing: one light direction, one palette, one level of finish, and subjects that do not compete — three founders, three views of the building, three products at the scale they are actually made.
Sign-off is normally a committee, and committees need something to look at. The digital mock-up is a single image at the exact canvas size, which can be forwarded, marked up and approved by email without a meeting. It arrives within 24 hours of the photographs, and nothing is painted until somebody with authority says yes in writing. If your approval chain takes a fortnight, say so at the start and we will schedule around it instead of chasing you.
On paperwork: we issue a formal invoice carrying your company name, address and purchase-order reference, and payment is by bank transfer. If finance needs a quotation before an invoice, we send one with the same figures as the published price table. Export paperwork travels with the consignment, which is tracked and insured, so whoever signs for it knows what is in the crate.
What it costs
Price is set by canvas size and the number of subjects — not by the occasion, the deadline, or how much detail you ask for. The table below is the same one used on every painting page, so there is no quote to wait for.
| Canvas | Metric | 1 subject | 2 subjects | 3 subjects | 4+ subjects |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 × 10 in | 20 × 25 cm | $189 | $259 | — | — |
| 12 × 16 in | 30 × 41 cm | $289 | $379 | $459 | — |
| 16 × 20 in | 41 × 51 cm | $389 | $499 | $619 | $749 |
| 20 × 24 in | 51 × 61 cm | $549 | $699 | $849 | $1,029 |
| 24 × 36 in | 61 × 91 cm | $789 | $1,059 | $1,290 | $1,560 |
| 30 × 40 in | 76 × 102 cm | $1,090 | $1,449 | $1,749 | $2,090 |
| 36 × 48 in | 91 × 122 cm | $1,390 | $1,849 | $2,249 | $2,690 |
Shipping is free worldwide. Framing is optional and quoted separately — most customers have the canvas stretched by a local framer for $60–$120.
How it works
Send the photograph
One sharp phone photo is enough. Tell us the deadline, the wall it is going on, and anything that must or must not be in the picture.
See the mock-up within 24 hours
A digital composite at the exact canvas size and crop, so size and composition are settled before any paint is bought. Nothing is charged until you approve it.
Watch it being painted
Three to five weeks in real oil, with two progress photographs. You can raise a concern at either one — that is what they are for.
Approve, then it ships
You see the finished canvas first, with one free round of adjustments. Then it travels rolled in a rigid tube, tracked and insured, with the numbered certificate inside.
Real oil, not a print
Hand-painted on cotton canvas, varnished, signed. Brushwork you can see in raking light.
You approve before we paint
A digital mock-up at the exact size and crop, within 24 hours, included in the price.
Numbered certificate
Every painting ships with a signed COA stating artist, medium, size and year.
Free worldwide shipping
Rolled in a rigid tube, tracked and insured. No minimum, no distance surcharge.
Questions
Questions we actually get
Every canvas comes from the same table used on the rest of the site: $389 for 16 × 20 in, $789 for 24 × 36 in, $1,390 for 36 × 48 in, with each additional subject adding a fixed amount. A set of three is three canvases on one invoice. Shipping is free worldwide.
We can get close, and we will tell you in advance how close. Pigment cannot reproduce an emitted screen colour exactly, and a large flat field of approximate brand colour is the thing that looks wrong. Used as an accent — a stripe, a chair, a logo on the wall — it reads as deliberate and the match stops mattering.
The mock-up is one image at the exact canvas size, showing the crop and the composition, and it arrives within 24 hours. It can be forwarded to anyone and marked up by email. Nothing is painted until a single named person confirms in writing, which keeps a committee from becoming a loop.
Yes. We issue a formal invoice with your company name, address and PO reference, and we can send a quotation first if finance needs one. Payment is by bank transfer. If your process needs supplier details in a particular format, send the form and we will fill it in rather than ask you to retype it.
Three to five weeks of painting plus three to five business days in transit, so six weeks from approval is comfortable and rush delivery brings it to three weeks for $90. Work backwards from the opening date rather than forwards from today, and allow a week for the approval chain.
Send a photograph of the wall
Wall, ceiling height, lighting, deadline and the brand colour if there is one. We will come back with a size, a composition and an invoice-ready quote.