Three recent placements, photographed where the work now hangs. Each one started with a conversation about the room, not the artwork.
Interior designers, hospitality groups and corporate art buyers come to the studio with a wall, a brief and a deadline. These are the working arrangements that have proven useful — each one built around how the work is actually made, packed and delivered.
Send through photographs of the room, ceiling height and the light direction at different times of day. I'll suggest which series — coastal light, Karoo horizons or highveld weather — will hold the wall without fighting the architecture, and which scale reads best from the main viewing distance.
Most projects combine one or two canvas originals with signed, numbered giclée editions for corridors, guest rooms and back-of-house areas. The cart handles the mix in one order, and each print arrives with its edition number and a certificate noting the series and the year it was pulled.
When a project calls for a particular coastline, a farm road or a palette that matches existing finishes, commissions open twice a year. You supply reference photographs and colour notes; I work up a small study first so the direction is agreed before the full canvas begins.
Canvas originals leave the studio either stretched and ready to hang or rolled in a rigid tube for onward framing on site. Prints ship flat between boards. If your installer needs everything to land in one delivery window, say so when the order is placed and I'll hold the pieces until the date lines up.
Every piece carries its medium, surface, dimensions and edition size in the listing, so the details can go straight into a specification sheet or a mood board. For larger selections I can put together a plain PDF with the same information laid out per room.
Hotels and offices rarely finish in one pass. If a first phase works, later phases can draw on the same series while the editions are still open, keeping the palette consistent across floors. Once an edition closes, I'll flag what remains and suggest the nearest alternative.
Full details on formats, editions and turnaround sit on the services page, and the current catalogue is listed under resources.
Offices, guesthouses and design studios often order across several series at once. A few points below settle the questions that come up most often before a first order.
A canvas original is one painting, signed on the reverse and shipped either stretched on a frame or rolled in a tube. A giclée print is a numbered edition pulled from a scanned original, signed in the margin. If a piece appears in both forms, the two listings are separate items and are counted separately in the cart.
When an edition closes, it does not reopen. Numbers are assigned in the order prints are pulled, so a low number is not reserved for anyone in advance. If a specific number matters to a project, say so before the order is placed and we will confirm what is still available.
Ochre and deep teal shift noticeably between monitors, and more so under office lighting. The dimensions, medium and surface listed on each piece are exact; the on-screen colour is approximate. For a wall where the tone has to sit against existing finishes, ask for a photograph of the work in daylight before committing.
Commissioned work opens twice annually and is limited by studio time, not by demand. A commission is a new painting made to a brief, not a variation of an existing series piece, and it is priced and scheduled separately from catalogue work. Enquiries sent outside an open window are held for the next one.
Originals leave the studio unframed unless agreed otherwise. Boards are cradled and ready to hang; canvases arrive with hanging hardware fitted. Prints are supplied unmounted so a framer can match the moulding to the room. Nothing is glazed or boxed by the studio.
A painting, a print and a pack of greeting cards can go in one cart. Prints and cards are packed flat; stretched canvases travel in a crate and may be dispatched on a different day. If a delivery date is tied to an opening or an installation, note it when ordering and we will say plainly whether it can be met.
Anything not covered here, including condition reports and provenance for older works, is handled directly. Reach the studio at info@jeffandersonartwork.com or on +27(53)6232497.