Custom Mediterranean Paintings: Santorini, Amalfi, Provence and Tuscany

We hand paint Mediterranean scenes to order in our studio in Dafen Art Village, Shenzhen. Send a photo from your trip to Santorini, Positano, Provence or Tuscany and we paint it on canvas. Or pick a design from our Mediterranean and coastal collection and we resize it, or shift the blues and terracottas so it sits with your tiles. Nothing is printed. There is no minimum order. We photograph every finished canvas and send you the photos, and nothing leaves the studio until you approve.

Mediterranean scenes we paint

Most Mediterranean art sold online is a print, or a single small original in one fixed size. We paint the scene you want, at the size you need, as many times as your project needs. Here is what buyers ask for most.

From your holiday photo to a finished canvas

You do not need a perfect photo. A phone picture is usually enough if the light and the shapes are clear. Send the largest file you have, not a screenshot, and tell us what mattered to you about that moment. Read more about how this works on our photo to painting page.

We can change the scene while we paint it. These are the requests we get every week.

• Combine two photos, for example your villa in one and the sea view behind it in another.
• Remove the crowds, the parked cars, the scooters and the cables across the sky.
• Add bougainvillea over the doorway, a boat on the water, or lemons on a branch in the corner.
• Move the light to late afternoon so the walls go warm instead of flat white.
• Turn a horizontal photo into a tall canvas by extending the sky and the water.

Colors that fit a Mediterranean room

Mediterranean interiors run on warm neutrals: lime-washed white, terracotta, clay, sand, olive green, wood and iron. Art that fights those colors looks stuck on. Art that shares them looks like it was always there.

The safe move is a painting that carries the blue of your accents and the warm tone of your floor or tile in the same canvas. A terracotta village over blue water does both at once. A cool blue and gray seascape can look cold on a warm clay wall, so we usually push the whites toward cream and warm the shadows.

Any catalog design can be recolored. More Aegean blue, softer chalky whites, deeper terracotta roofs, a greener sea. If you have a paint code or a fabric sample, we can match it and send you a photo of the mixed color in daylight for approval before we start painting. That process is explained on our color matched paintings page.

Texture, and why it matters on a lime-washed wall

A flat, smooth painting can look thin next to plaster, stone and rough wood. Thick paint does not. Palette knife ridges catch the same side light your walls do, so the canvas reads as part of the room instead of a picture hung on it. If you want to see how that ridged surface gets built, we wrote up how we paint.

We paint three levels of surface. Light texture keeps the brushwork visible but stays close to the canvas. Impasto builds real ridges you can feel. Heavy relief goes further again, with paint standing off the surface. See examples on our textured paintings page.

One thing to plan for: heavy texture ships stretched or framed, not rolled. Rolling thick impasto is not recommended, because the ridges can crack. If your order is large and you want it rolled to save freight, ask us for light or medium texture instead and we will tell you honestly what will survive the tube.

Matched sets for restaurants, tavernas and hotels

A single painting is easy to buy. Eight that look like they belong together is the hard part, and that is what we are built for. Because every canvas is painted by hand in one studio, we can hold one palette and one hand across a whole series while the subjects change: Santorini in the entry, an Amalfi harbor over the bar, a Tuscan olive grove along the banquette.

Mixed designs count together for pricing. Trade rates start at one piece, improve at 6 pieces and improve again at 21, and a restaurant ordering ten different scenes gets the same benefit as one ordering ten of the same. For a first order or a large project we paint a sample first, and the sample cost is credited back on any order of 10 pieces or more. Our restaurants, bars and cafes page covers the hospitality side in more detail.

Size and placement

Over a sofa, aim for a canvas about two thirds the width of the sofa. A 90 inch sofa takes something around 60 inches wide, which is why 60 by 40 inches and 60 by 30 inches are our most common living room sizes. Hang the center of the painting about 57 to 60 inches from the floor, and leave roughly 8 to 10 inches between the sofa back and the bottom of the frame.

Along a long restaurant banquette, one big horizontal canvas usually beats a row of small ones, because diners sit close and small pieces disappear behind heads. If the wall is very long, a set of two or three at matching height reads as one line and gives you spacing flexibility.

In a hotel corridor, sets of two work well at door spacing, and vertical formats suit narrow piers between doors. For a feature wall in a lobby or a stairwell, go bigger than feels comfortable. We paint 60 standard sizes up to 80 by 60 inches, plus any size you measure, and larger single canvases are quoted case by case.

Finish, packing and freight

You choose the finish. Rolled in a tube, stretched on solid wood bars, or framed in black, white, wood, silver or gold. All five frame colors cost the same, so pick the one that suits the room rather than the budget. For Mediterranean interiors, natural wood and gold usually sit better than black.

Rolled canvas is the cheapest way to ship more than about 20 pieces, and a local framer can stretch them on arrival. Delivery is EXW our Shenzhen studio and freight is quoted separately at cost, with nothing added on top. Express by FedEx or DHL takes 5 to 10 business days. Air freight and sea freight are available, with sea taking 25 to 40 days. CIF and DDP are available on request. Packing can be a tube, stretched, framed or a wooden crate, and we confirm the crate count with you before transport is booked.

Paintings executed entirely by hand fall under HTS 9701, which carries a free base rate of duty into the United States. Other China-origin measures can apply, so please confirm your position with a customs broker.

How ordering works

1. Send the enquiry Tell us the scenes, the sizes, the quantity and your deadline. Attach your photos or the catalog codes you like. WhatsApp replies are usually immediate; email replies usually arrive within 12 hours.
2. Get the quote We come back with the price per piece, the production time band, the finish options and a freight estimate for your city.
3. Sample if you want one For a first order or a large project we paint a sample. The sample cost is credited back on any order of 10 pieces or more.
4. Pay the deposit Usually 50 percent to start, with the balance due before the goods are released. Wire transfer, PayPal or card. Terms are confirmed on the invoice.
5. See progress photos For commissions from your own photo, we send work-in-progress shots so you can steer the color or the light before the paint sets.
6. Approve the photos We photograph every finished canvas and send them to you. Nothing ships until you say yes. If a piece has a defect that is our fault, we repaint it at our cost.

Browse the collection, or send us your own village

Start with the Mediterranean and coastal collection. It is full of cliffside villages, terracotta rooftops, lemon branches over blue bays, flower-draped doorways, harbors and quiet coves, in impressionist and heavily textured hands.

Did not find what you like? Send us what you like and we paint it. That can be a photo you took, a Pinterest board, a paint chip, a piece of your tile, a fabric sample, a rough sketch or an AI image you generated. It can also be a catalog design with changes: “IA37, but 72 inches wide, with warmer roofs and a calmer sea.” Tell us in plain words what you want different and we will tell you honestly whether it will work.

One note on subject matter. Cycladic scenes often include a church dome and a cross. That is fine in most markets, and we paint it as it is unless you say otherwise. If religious symbols do not suit your project, ask for doors, harbors, terraces, olive groves or open landscape instead, and we will keep the scene clear of them. Buyers furnishing homes in the Gulf or in Turkey may also want to look at art for Gulf homes and art for Turkish homes. If Morocco is on your list too, art for Moroccan homes shows the scenes we paint for those rooms.