Original Art for the Kitchen

Two artists. Phaedra makes the colored pencil work on artboard, including the flower studies Blossom Serenade, Azure Whisper, and Scarlet Majesty, and Marjan Mousavi paints the acrylic on canvas pieces. Keeping this list to two hands is deliberate, because a kitchen usually has room for only one or two works and they need to agree with each other. Both artists sign every piece.

Yes, this group starts around $93. That buys a small original colored pencil work on artboard, hand made and signed, never a print. The middle of the collection sits near $400, and the top is about $1,300, which is where the larger acrylic canvases sit. Free insured shipping is included at every price, so a $93 piece does not turn into a $140 piece at checkout.

No, send it to your home address instead. An active kitchen renovation means dust, cutting, and trades moving boxes around, and a canvas leaning against a wall in that will get damaged. Order once the cabinets and the paint are done. If the timing is tight, have it delivered somewhere safe and dry, leave it boxed, and hang it when the room is finished.

Go small and lean it rather than hang it. Pieces here start around 30 by 40 cm, which sits well on an open shelf, on a counter against the backsplash, or on the end panel of a run of cabinets. Keep it away from the range and the sink, where grease and steam land. A small work near the doorway usually gets seen more than a large one.

Yes, through our Lifetime Trade-Back. Return any piece in good condition at any time, years later included, and we give you store credit toward something that suits the new place. It exists because kitchen art is tied to one specific wall more than art in any other room, and people move. Send us a photo of the new kitchen and we will suggest what fits it.

They buy too small. Kitchens are full of competing shapes, cabinet doors, handles, appliances, and tile, and a 20 cm picture disappears into all that noise. Pieces here run up to about 100 by 100 cm, and the larger end reads far better across a room. If the only free wall is small, hang one clear piece there rather than three tiny ones.

Yes, as long as they hang well away from the stove and sink. The eat-in nook, end wall, and pantry wall are all safe, good spots. Airborne grease coats everything within about a metre of a cooktop, and that film cannot be fully cleaned off a painted surface.

Cheerful pieces with enough depth to survive daily viewing: animal paintings, bold small abstracts, warm figure studies. Literal food art tends to exhaust itself quickly. A useful test is asking if the piece would hold its own in your living room. If yes, it will thrive in the kitchen.

Small to mid-sized works, roughly 25 to 60 cm (10 to 24 in), fit most kitchen walls, which are broken up by cabinets and windows. One mid-sized painting above an eat-in nook usually works better than several tiny pieces scattered between the upper cabinets.

Dust the surface with a dry, soft brush a few times a year, and never use kitchen sprays or damp cloths on paint. Put works on paper under glass, which wipes clean. Good placement away from the cooking zone prevents most problems before they start.

Small originals start around $72 with us, and most kitchen-scale pieces sit under $400. Every painting is hand-painted, signed, and one of a kind, with free fully insured shipping across Canada in 3 to 7 business days and to the USA in 5 to 10.

Yes. We sell only original, hand-painted, signed works, never prints or reproductions, and every piece ships with a Certificate of Authenticity. The painting leaning on your open shelf is the only copy of itself in the world, which is a nice thought over morning coffee.

Hold off if you fry daily under a weak range hood, or if every available wall sits within a metre of the cooktop or sink. In that kitchen, grease will win eventually. Hang the piece in the adjacent dining space or hallway instead, where you still see it constantly.