6 Of My Favourite Places to Source Art Prints For The Home
After recently redecorating my hallway, entrance and landing, I had a lot of blank wall space available that I wanted to fill with bright, colourful art prints to contrast against the new blue paint colour. I believe that art in the home should be personal and unique to your style and I try to avoid hanging prints that are mass-produced; once upon a time this would have meant that art was quite inaccessible to me, but in recent years there have been a number of new galleries, creative companies and independent curators who have made art a lot more accessible for all. Events like The Affordable Art Fair highlight new artists and modern printing companies support young creatives who sell a limited run of art prints via their online shops. As I get asked a lot about the art in my home which I share on my Instagram feed, I thought that today on the blog I would share my favourite places for sourcing art:
Print Club London
King & McGaw
Vintage art sellers on social media
Museum gift shops
Rise Art
Paper Collective
‘Bird Girl’ print via Rise Art
Print Club London
This Hackney-based screenprinting studio sells a wide range of limited-run contemporary prints via its online gallery. With prices starting at just £25, Print Club prides itself on making British art accessible. Choose art designed and produced at Print Club from over 60 creatives, including the popular location map prints by Dave Buonaguidi.
Let’s Go Get Lost Together – Ibiza - by Dave Buonaguidi via Print Club London
King & McGaw
I purchased a lot of prints from this printing and framing workshop down on the Sussex coast over the years. King & McGaw work closely with British institutions like the V&A and Tate, with licences to produce a vast number of iconic prints, including those by Hockney and Basquiat.
This print from King & McGaw hung in my kitchen during its pink phase.
Vintage art sellers
I adore vintage art, but I don’t have the time to trawl car boot sales and eBay like I used to. Luckily, there are a number of brilliant online vintage art sellers who do all the sourcing and then sell their finds via Instagram and Etsy. Wallflower Vintage Art is great for Indian glass paintings while The Vintage Art Gallery sells affordable and unique florals.
Museum Gift Shops
Museum and gallery gift shops have been my go-to for years to pick up great art prints and as they now all have online shops, you don’t even need to make the trek to London if you don’t live close enough. When I decorated our first home, I purchased three Transport For London posters from the gift shop and had the text cut off the bottom, before getting them professionally framed. The colourful landmark prints of Battersea Power Station, the London Eye and the Gherkin still hang in our house today.
Kew print via The Transport Museum
Rise Art
If you are looking to make a purchase of the ‘next big thing’, Rise Art is definitely worth a browse. There is a whole range of artworks on their website that range from a few hundred pounds to five figures, but they have a good filter so you can really narrow down what you are looking for. They have recently partnered with Soho Home, who host a number of their artworks in their furniture showrooms and you can shop this edit on their website.
Rise Art artworks in the Kings Road Soho Home store.
Paper Collective
I’m obsessed with the prints available via Paper Collective. I first discovered the brand on a visit to Copenhagen and since then, Paper Collective prints have been available to purchase via Heal’s and H&M Home. These colour captures with a retro twist are often used in the projects of one favourite interior designers, Emma Gurner.
A Paper Collective print used in a design by Folds Inside Studio. Photography by Anna Yanovski
