Statement Artwork for Commercial Spaces

It goes to whoever buys first, because every painting here is an original and we cannot make a second one. Commercial sign-off often takes weeks, so send us your first and second choice early and we will tell you if either one moves. If your piece does sell, we can point you to other work by the same artist at a similar size and price.

Yes, the 14-day trial applies to commercial buyers as well: hang the piece in the space, and if it does not work, send it back within 14 days for a full refund with return shipping paid by us. For a venue this is the only honest test, because a painting that looked right in a photo can vanish under downlights or fight the wall colour.

Delivery inside Canada takes about 3 to 7 business days, free and fully insured, shipped from our studio in Vancouver. Order at least two weeks before an opening so you still have room to hang the work and to use the trial period if a piece is wrong. Tell us your date when you write to us and we will say plainly whether it is tight.

The biggest work in this collection reaches about 135 cm wide and about 152 cm tall, which suits most lobby and reception walls. Above that we have no single original at this scale, so for a very wide wall we pair two large canvases with roughly a hand's width between them, or hang one large piece off-centre with seating below it.

Prices in this collection run from about $80 to about $3,000, with the middle near $1,100. A piece that truly reads from across a room is usually in the upper half of that range, because it is a large oil or acrylic canvas. Under about $500 you are buying a supporting piece, which is fine beside a desk but will not carry a lobby on its own.

Melina Ghaemi, Roshan, Phaedra, Nahira, Ziba Vishteh, Peyman Mehdizadeh and Marjan Mousavi all have work in this collection, mostly oil and acrylic on canvas. For a lobby or a restaurant wall we start with the largest canvases, then narrow by mood rather than by artist name, because a venue needs the painting to hold the room, not a signature to impress guests.

In a restaurant, the statement wall is the one every seated guest can see without turning, usually the long wall opposite the banquette or the wall behind the bar. Pick it by sitting in the four busiest seats and looking up. The wall by the entrance gets seen for eight seconds, and the wall you eat facing gets an hour.

Expect $900 to $4,000 for a single statement original big enough to anchor a restaurant, clinic, or showroom wall, with most venues landing near $1,500. That is one line item, not a whole art budget, and it usually replaces the six small pieces a designer would otherwise scatter around the room. Fewer and larger is the cheaper route.

In a small clinic or salon, a statement piece 90 to 130 cm (36 to 51 inches) wide is enough, because the viewing distance is only two or three metres. Scale to the distance people stand from it, not to the size of the business. A 200 cm canvas in a 3 metre room stops being a feature and starts being a wall.

Waiting rooms need calm subjects and soft colour: water, trees, open sky, or quiet abstraction in blues and greens. People sit there anxious, sometimes in pain, and they stare at one wall for twenty minutes. Avoid red, avoid anything that reads as a wound or a body part, and avoid work so busy it raises the pulse.

Not well, and this is the honest limit: airborne oil from an open kitchen settles on any exposed canvas and cannot be cleaned off easily. Keep unglazed originals at least four metres from a grill or pass, out of the direct path of the extraction, and choose framed work behind glass for anything closer. Glass wipes clean, paint does not.

Yes, every painting we sell is a single original, so once you buy it no other venue can have it. That is the point of a statement wall: guests photograph it, tag the place, and the image belongs to your room alone. A signed Certificate of Authenticity comes with it, naming the artist, the year, and the exact size.

Skip it when the room is already loud, with patterned floor, coloured tile, open shelving, strong signage, and a menu board all competing. Adding a big painting to that makes the space feel unfinished rather than confident. Fix the lighting and clear one wall first. If no wall can be cleared, buy two smaller works and put the money into better light.