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One to three tables, at BD 33 each. Small stretched canvases can stand on table easels here, where buyers see them up close and can carry them home.
Manama / Painted versions of your work for a stall, a store or a fair
Your Art and Photos as Hand-Painted Canvases to Show and Sell in Manama
Small canvases buyers carry home from a market table, and one work painted large to stand at the entrance.
Your painting, photograph, illustration, or digital or AI image can become a hand-painted canvas. This page is for artists booking a table or the entrance space at Market Street's Winter Market on 5 December. It also helps you if you rent a footprint at its Galleria store, or you have been invited to a fair that sells on site.
PaletteMomento is a hand-painting studio in Dafen Art Village, Shenzhen, China. Each canvas is painted by hand from your own image, so a best seller can be painted again when your Galleria space needs restocking. Before anything ships, you see daylight photos of every finished canvas and approve them.
If a curated show asks for your own original, as Nadine Gallery's December call for Bahraini women artists does (entries due 15 October 2026), enter your own work there. The studio versions are for selling, labeled as hand-painted by a studio from your work, as our guide for artists and photographers explains.
Message us on WhatsApp about canvases for your Manama stall
Our fastest way to discuss your schedule and price. The written quote follows by email for your records.
WhatsApp: usually an immediate reply.
Email: usually within 12 hours. Monday–Sunday.
support@palettemomento.comOr use our written quote form.
01 / Book the stall, then size the canvases
BD 33 tables or the BD 80 entrance space at the 5 December Winter Market
Market Street's Winter Market runs on Saturday 5 December 2026, from 11am to 5pm, in the Sheraton Bahrain Hotel ballroom in Manama. Bahrain Confidential reported on 1 October 2026 that vendor registration was still open.
Book the stall type before you choose any canvas. A table and a floor space call for different works, and for different sizes.
3 x 3 m entrance space
One space at the main entrance, for BD 80. A few larger canvases can stand on floor easels, so this is where one of your works can grow into an extra-large painting.
These fees come from Market Street's expression-of-interest form, checked in October 2026, and they may change at formal registration. The form gives no table size and no hanging rules, so ask Market Street before you fix sizes.
Choose the works for the space you booked
Your best-selling images suit small table canvases. Your best-known work may earn one enlarged canvas, but only if the entrance space gives it room to stand.
Work back from 5 December when you plan. We confirm a feasible date for your actual order, and rush can be requested.
When you register, tell Market Street that a studio hand-painted these canvases from your own work. Label them that way on your stall too (see our guide for artists and photographers).
02 / Hang one or two, stand the rest, restock what sells
At the Galleria store, every hung canvas has a fee and every piece takes a sticker
Market Street also runs a maker store in The Galleria Mall, Zinj, Manama, open daily from 10am to 8pm. Market Street's vendor list includes original watercolors and wall art. When you apply for a footprint, tell Market Street how these canvases are made, and describe them that way at the store.
The terms below are the store's own undated rates, checked in October 2026. They belong to one operator and are not a Manama norm.
| Market Street's vendor terms | What we suggest for your canvases |
|---|---|
| Floor space from 1 x 1 m to 2 x 1 m. | Choose standing sizes that fit inside the footprint you rent, with room for each canvas to be seen. |
| A hanging fee for each piece, from BD 2.5 and rising with its dimensions. Wall space for hanging is available on request. | Ask the store for wall space first, then hang one or two of your strongest images. Keep the rest small and standing. |
| Every item carries a price sticker with your 3-letter vendor code. | Ask us for a plain canvas back, so the sticker has a clean place. This is our suggestion; the store does not say where the sticker goes. |
| Vendors restock their own space. | Start with a small first batch, then reorder the images and sizes that sold. |
03 / Order for a trade fair once it is licensed
Before ordering for a Bahrain trade fair, look for its BTEA license number in the ads
Bahrain's rules for fair organizers give you a simple check before you order. A trade exhibition may not advertise before its license from the Bahrain Tourism and Exhibitions Authority (BTEA), and its ads must show the license number. A direct-sale fair normally sells for ten days at most, so size the stock to that window.
These rules come from Minister of Tourism Resolution No. 1 of 2025 (Gazette 27 February 2025). The organizer applies at least two months ahead.
BTEA can allow a longer selling window, and sales happen only on site during the fair dates. The organizer also gives BTEA detailed lists of the goods offered for direct sale.
These duties sit with the organizer. Your part is simple: ask the organizer for its BTEA license number before you fix an order.
Before a fair order is final
- The organizer's BTEA license number appears in its advertising.
- The fair dates are fixed, normally ten days at most.
- Your canvas list is ready for the organizer's goods list, with a title and artwork code for each canvas.
- You know where unsold canvases go after the last day.
- You have told the organizer what your source image is and that our studio paints the canvases from it, and asked whether its rules allow that.
The next Bahrain Annual Fine Arts Exhibition and Spring of Culture 2027 had no call or dates as of October 2026.
04 / Capture the original before it is sold
Photograph an original before a Manama collector takes it home
Under Bahrain's Law No. 22 of 2006, Article 10, selling an original does not by itself pass your economic rights in it to the buyer.
The buyer also does not have to give you access to the original so you can reproduce it or display it, unless you both agreed that in writing.
So the moment before the sale matters. If you may want a larger or extra painted version later, photograph the original at full resolution, with true color, before it leaves you. You can also put access to the work in writing as part of the sale.
That photo becomes the reference our painter works from. Our photo-to-painting service explains how a photo becomes a canvas.
Two canvases from our catalog: thick palette-knife petals on the left, soft loose strokes on the right. A reference photo of your original should show its surface as clearly as its color.
What the photo should hold
- The whole work, square-on, in even daylight.
- A color reference card placed beside it.
- Close-ups of the texture and the edges.
- The image width and height, measured on the original.
05 / One canvas list for the quote, a fair's goods list and your sales list
One line per canvas, for our quote, a fair organizer’s goods list and your reorders
If you sell at a licensed fair, its organizer files a detailed goods list with BTEA, so it may ask for yours. Market Street pays you from a sales list built from your 3-letter sticker code. Give each image a title and an artwork code now, so the same line works in our quote, in the organizer's list and when you reorder.
We can also include a packing list that shows which paintings, by artwork code and size, are in each case.
Our guide to how we quote explains how each line is priced.
- Each canvas's title and artwork code, with its image width and height, medium and quantity.
- The source behind each code, whether a painting, a photo, a digital file or an AI image.
- Your stall type or footprint size, or for a fair, its name, dates and BTEA license number.
- Which canvases hang and which stand on easels, and whether easel pieces come stretched or framed.
- A plain back for the store sticker, if you sell at Market Street. If you want anything else on the back, tell us your requirement and we confirm in the quote what we can do.
- Your delivery address in Manama and the date you need the canvases in hand.
- Any later version of a sold original, with your full-resolution photo of it.
Studio order & delivery terms
- Made by hand
- Painted directly on premium linen, with no printed base. Acrylic is standard; oil is available on request. One painter takes each canvas from the first marks to the last.
- One piece or a collection
- Orders start at one painting, with quantity tiers from 6 and 21 pieces. Mixed designs count together. A sample is a separate single-piece order, priced on its own and not credited against a later order.
- Rolled, stretched or framed
- You choose the image width and height. Suitable rolled work includes an extra 5 cm of blank canvas on every side for stretching or framing. Please mention a larger allowance before production. Heavy texture should travel stretched or framed.
- A complete delivery quote
- Your quote sets out the artwork, presentation and delivery charges. We work with more than 200 logistics partners to compare express and sea options. Most destinations are served on DDP terms, with exceptions where local customs rules require another arrangement. The quote states the delivery terms for Bahrain.
- Time for each stage
- Painting, your review, transport and any local framing are separate stages. Rush production can be requested, and we confirm a feasible date for the actual order.
- Payment
- Usually a 50% deposit, with the balance after final approval and before shipping.
06 / Stalls, stickers and sales
Market Street, a charity sale and a sold original: Manama answers
Is there still time to get painted canvases for the Winter Market in Manama on 5 December?
Vendor registration for Manama’s 5 December Winter Market was still open on 1 October 2026, Bahrain Confidential reported, so book the stall, then send us your canvas list. The date we can confirm depends on that list: how many canvases, how large, and whether they come stretched or framed. A shorter list of smaller canvases is easier to fit before the market.
Can I order just one large canvas for the Winter Market entrance space in Manama?
Yes, orders start at one painting, so one enlargement for Market Street's 3 x 3 m entrance space can be its own order. It should arrive stretched or framed to stand on a floor easel. If it does not sell on 5 December, you can ask the Galleria store for wall space, where the hanging fee depends on the canvas’s dimensions.
What does a Market Street space in The Galleria Mall cost, and how do I see what sold?
Market Street's Galleria Mall store in Manama lists monthly floor-space rates from BD 45 for 1 x 1 m to BD 65 for 2 x 1 m. It adds a 3.5% operational charge on sales, and prepaying six or twelve months lowers the rate. These are its own undated terms, checked in October 2026. An attendant rings up sales, so you do not need to staff the space. The store builds your sales list from the 3-letter code on each price sticker. At the end of each month, or on request, you receive that list and the cash. Match the items on that list to the artwork codes in your first quote, and we can paint those images again.
Can I run a charity sale of my painted canvases in Bahrain?
Yes, through a charity partner that holds the license for that collection, if you advertise it as a charity sale or charity market. Under Bahrain's Decree-Law No. 39 of 2025, an individual may not collect money for non-religious purposes. Bahrain’s 2014 fundraising regulation lists charity markets among the ways to collect funds. The charity applies at least two months ahead, though the Ministry of Social Development may waive that period. Agree the date with your charity partner first, then fix how many canvases are donated or sold, and the delivery date, to its license window.
My original already went to a collector in Bahrain. Can you still paint a new version of it?
Yes, we can paint a new version from the best image you kept, as long as you still hold the rights to that work. Under Bahrain's Law No. 22 of 2006, the collector does not have to give you access to the original, so that image becomes the reference. If the collector agrees in writing now, you can still photograph the original where it hangs, with the same daylight and close-up shots.
How do I check that a restocked best seller matches the one that sold at the Galleria?
Keep the approved daylight photos of your first Galleria batch in Manama, because the canvas that sold is gone and those photos are what you compare the repeat with. Before the repeat ships, you see its own daylight photos and approve them side by side with the first set. A repeat matches closely but never exactly. Our painting process page explains how each canvas is painted.
From your image to a Manama sale
Which of your works sells small from the table, and which one stands large at the entrance?
Photograph any original you are about to sell, then send the photo with your stall plan. We can say which works suit a table canvas and which one could be painted large.
Message us on WhatsApp about canvases for your Manama stall
Our fastest way to discuss your schedule and price. The written quote follows by email for your records.
WhatsApp: usually an immediate reply.
Email: usually within 12 hours. Monday–Sunday.
support@palettemomento.comOr use our written quote form.