Shop floor: your designs and your clients’ orders
You can send your own artwork or a client’s reference, with the width and height each wall needs. We can paint your own design as one canvas or as a set.
Dubai / Galleries & framers
Shop Floor or Fair Stand: Hand-Painted Canvases for Dubai Galleries
Painted on linen for your shop walls, and for a World Art Dubai stand once its curators approve the pieces.
A Dubai gallery may sell from two places: its own shop floor and a stand at World Art Dubai. On the shop floor, you choose what hangs. On the stand, the fair’s curators pre-approve every artwork and artist, so they decide which pieces can hang there. We can paint for gallery owners planning both, and for Dubai framing shops that also sell art from their own walls.
PaletteMomento is a hand-painting studio in Dafen Art Village, Shenzhen, China, supplying galleries, framers and other trade buyers worldwide. One painter paints each canvas directly on premium linen, with no printed base. You can order a single painting or a full wall of stock. Your quote lists and prices each design separately, marked for the shop, the stand or both. Nothing ships until you have seen daylight photos of every finished canvas and approved them.
Message us on WhatsApp for a canvas quote
Our fastest way to discuss your designs and price. The written quote follows by email for your records.
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Email: usually within 12 hours. Monday–Sunday.
support@palettemomento.comOr send your designs and sizes through our quote form.
01 / Sort subjects by where they sell
Your Dubai shop floor and your fair stand need two subject lists
If you sell from a shop floor and also take a stand at World Art Dubai, the stand adds the fair’s own written rules. The fair’s first mandatory guideline for 2026, headed “Content Restrictions (UAE Law)”, says artworks must not contain nudity, sexual content, religious symbols or political themes. It applies to all religions and belief systems. Apart from calligraphy, we suggest both lists stay inside those content limits. The other difference is the fair’s rule on original work.
On one large Dubai home retailer’s site, marketplace sellers listed framed printed calligraphy from about AED 71 to AED 293 in September 2026. A hand-painted piece makes more sense as a commissioned order, with the text checked first, than as stock set against those prints.
Fair stand: only work the curators approve
The curators pre-approve every artwork and artist, and the fair accepts only original work. Please ask them before you count any canvas you commission as fair stock. The next section shows how many pieces one stand wall can take.
Calligraphy: best kept for shop and client orders
The fair excludes religious symbols, and its curators decide what counts as one. For a shop commission, the text is checked on your side first, and we confirm in the quote whether we can paint it to your standard. Quranic text has its own rules in Dubai, and our Dubai hotel page covers checking Arabic lettering and Quranic text.
02 / Size the stand wall
Draw your World Art Dubai wall before you order the stand pieces
World Art Dubai 2026 is scheduled for 19 to 22 November 2026 at DWTC, Za'abeel Halls 2 and 3. The organizer’s site carries the latest dates, so please check it before you fix your own plans.
The fair limits how densely a stand is hung. Each wall may carry at most two rows of work, with at least 20 cm on all sides between pieces. At least 30% of the wall must stay white or empty, and this is checked on site during set-up. Curators may ask a crowded stand to take works down.
A wall layout with each artwork’s size and position is due at least three weeks before the fair, so please confirm that deadline with the organizer. In the stand package, walls are 3 m high. A stand is L-shaped or U-shaped, depending on where it sits on the floor plan. Stand rates are published per square meter, and the fair says it takes no commission on sales.
Order the sizes your approved layout holds
We suggest measuring every piece at its outside size, frame included, because the frame takes up wall space too. Once the curators have approved the pieces and the layout works on paper, you can order the canvases to match it. Please tell us when the curators need artwork images, when your layout is due and when the stand pieces must be in Dubai.
03 / Name the medium
A big Dubai home store already splits printed from hand-painted
A large Dubai home retailer’s wall-art category showed 968 results in September 2026, with a “Painting Type” filter for “Printed” and “Handpainted”. In one Dubai furniture store, a 102 × 152 cm “painting” is printed on polyester fiber, with brushwork that gives it a slightly raised texture. So the word “painting” alone does not tell a buyer what they are buying.
At least one Dubai showroom says the opposite plainly. It states on its 140 × 140 cm piece that it is “a 100% handmade painting, and not a print or canvas transfer”. At World Art Dubai, every label must show the artist name, the title, the medium and size, and the price in AED.
We suggest naming the medium on every label and listing, not only the word “painting”. Each of our canvases is painted directly on premium linen, and you can see how each canvas is painted. You are welcome to keep the photos and short videos we send as the painting goes, and the daylight photos of each finished canvas. They help you show a buyer how the piece was made.
What each label card carries
- Medium: hand-painted acrylic on linen, or hand-painted oil on linen if you ordered oil
- Surface: painted directly on the linen, with no printed base
- Image size: width × height in cm
- Presentation: stretched or framed, with the outside size if framed
- On the stand: the artist name and title as agreed with the curators, and the price in AED
04 / Your quote list
Tag every design: shop, stand or both
Where a design will sell sets its canvas size, the label it carries and the date it must be in Dubai. A design tagged for both needs a size that fits your stand layout as well as your shop wall.
- Each design’s image or reference, tagged shop floor, World Art Dubai stand, or both
- Image width and height, plus the outside size of any stand piece you will frame
- How many of each design you want
- Rolled, stretched or framed
- Your Dubai address, and the date the shop and the stand each need their pieces
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 the UAE.
- 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.
05 / Fair and shop, side by side
What changes when a Dubai gallery adds a fair stand to its shop
Can studio-painted canvases hang on a World Art Dubai stand?
Only if World Art Dubai’s curators accept them, since the 2026 guidelines take only original work by the exhibiting artist or gallery that infringes no one’s intellectual property. The same rule allows hand-made prints and signed fine-art photography up to 100 editions, but offset lithographs and mass-printed reproductions are not permitted. Copies of other artists’ work are not the exhibitor’s own original creation, so they do not fit the rule.
Can a World Art Dubai price label show a discount?
No, World Art Dubai’s 2026 guidelines ask for a price in AED on every label with no discount shown, and any discount is discussed privately. The same guidelines cap prices at AED 80,000, and a higher price needs prior approval. At least 70% of works must be priced below AED 40,000, so we suggest planning your fair sizes and prices inside that band.
Can Dubai art fair dates change at short notice?
Yes, Dubai fair dates have changed at short notice: in March 2026, Art Dubai’s organizers moved that year’s fair from mid-April to May. World Art Dubai’s 2026 edition was first planned for April and is now scheduled for 19 to 22 November 2026. When we checked in September 2026, the fair’s 2026 curation guidelines still referred to an April VIP opening, so please confirm each deadline with the organizer. We suggest planning for stand pieces to arrive early rather than just in time. Art Dubai 2027 is scheduled at Madinat Jumeirah, with previews on 7 and 8 April and public fair days from 9 to 11 April.
Where can a Dubai gallery get a rolled canvas stretched?
Framers in Dubai’s Al Quoz area, including one close to Alserkal Avenue, and in Karama advertise canvas stretching. One Al Quoz framer advertises hand-stretching on custom wooden bars, with fast turnaround. The same framer lists gallery trade terms, including rush service and pick-ups, so it is worth asking what applies to you. World Art Dubai lists a framing and installation sponsor for 2026. If rolled stand pieces will be stretched in Dubai, please confirm the services and timing with the fair and the framer.
Can fair stock and shop stock travel to Dubai separately?
Yes, we can ship in batches, so your World Art Dubai pieces can travel on their own date, ahead of your shop stock or after it. Your quote states the delivery terms for the UAE.
Before the curators reply
Your Dubai shop walls do not have to wait for the fair
You are welcome to send the shop list now and add the stand pieces once the curators have approved them.
Message us on WhatsApp for a canvas quote
Our fastest way to discuss your designs 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 send your designs and sizes through our quote form.