Can your paintings count toward a brief that asks for London-based artists?

Not for walls briefed on London-based artists: our canvases are painted in Dafen, Shenzhen, so those walls need a painter who lives in London. One private-equity firm’s London collection, for example, highlights emerging London-based artists, with 85% of the pieces by women, according to its art consultancy. Painted from your references, our canvases can take the other walls, such as meeting rooms and team floors. If your brief sets other rules about who paints the work, tell us the requirement and we confirm in the quote what we can do.

Can we hang a large canvas in a corridor of our London office?

Ask your London building’s fire-risk assessor first, because the GOV.UK fire safety guide for offices suggests avoiding displays of paper, cardboard and plastic in corridors and foyers. It also suggests that staff display boards on escape routes are no bigger than 1 square meter, unless they sit in a sealed case. The guide does not mention framed art, so your assessor makes the call. Statement canvases can go in rooms and lift lobbies the assessor approves.

Our London fit-out works to SKA or BREEAM standards. What can you tell us about the paintings?

For a London SKA or BREEAM fit-out, we can state that each canvas is premium linen with no printed base, painted in acrylic as standard or oil on request. We can also describe how each case is packed. One insurance trade association’s 2025 City office chose all materials and furnishings to meet SKA standards, so expect the question. For anything else on your list, tell us the requirement and we confirm in the quote what we can provide.

Can we order one canvas to test black-and-white against color with our partners?

Yes, a London firm torn between black-and-white and one bright pop can order one canvas as a sample, on the sample terms in the quote section. We suggest painting the sample in the register the partners are least sure about, and judging it in the client room’s own light. If the full order repeats the sample design, each repeat matches it closely but never exactly, as hand-painted work does.

Our South Bank office wants London subjects. What suits a workplace there?

One London fit-out firm calls South Bank and Southwark offices ‘creative corporate’, leaning on cultural references more than other districts, so cultural subjects can suit a workplace there. Tate Modern, Shakespeare’s Globe and the National Theatre are close by. That makes room for river views and the outsides of theaters and galleries, painted from photos your team took or has licensed. Our page on custom cityscape paintings shows how a city view becomes a canvas.

Hand-Painted Office Art for London Firms

01 / Set each client room’s register

Black-and-white, tonal or one bright pop: the register for each client room

Published London finance offices point to three registers, meaning how quiet or bold a room and its art feel. We suggest choosing one for each client room. A fit-out firm’s round-up from March 2026 describes a Mayfair private-equity office finished with black-and-white artwork. The same round-up shows a West End advisory firm’s office in a muted palette with high-quality finishes. In a 2021 fit-out for a Mayfair hedge-fund manager, a neutral palette was punctuated by bright pops of color, with artwork adding personality.

The muted, tonal register leans on texture and close colors. One private-equity firm’s London collection is built on materiality, palette and symmetrical abstraction, chosen to suit the interior and its natural light. These are a handful of projects of different ages, not a rule for the West End.

Textured portrait canvas in a thin wood-tone frame, a face built from thick palette-knife slabs of gray, cream and white with black, and small strokes of peach, orange, pink and blue, on a white background — 01 / Muted and tonalGrays, cream and black, with small strokes of peach, orange and blue.

Textured abstract canvas in a thin black frame, with a diagonal sweep of orange, purple, blue and navy across layered white palette-knife strokes, on a white background — 02 / One bright popA sweep of orange, purple and blue across white.

Both from our painting collection, not from a London office. A face can sit in a muted register as easily as an abstract can.

Write one register beside each room on the brief

It helps to put the register next to each room name on your brief. Subjects come after that, and they can differ from room to room.

In black-and-white or tonal work, the steps between gray, cream and white carry the whole picture. In the daylight photos of every finished canvas, compare the gray-to-white steps across the set. In a one-pop room, check that the bright color takes the share of the canvas you asked for. Colors are mixed on the palette against your reference, as our page on how each canvas is painted explains.

02 / Decide whether a legacy piece leads

Does a crest, your sector’s past or an anniversary belong on your London walls?

Some London organizations bring their own past into the building, at the arrival area or in a social space. Here are three London examples, each with a painting direction.

Your emblem, reinterpreted

In one insurance trade association’s City office (2025), a reinterpreted badges installation anchors the arrival area and celebrates the organization’s legacy. A bar-style welcome point stands where a reception desk would be. A painting can give your emblem or crest the same new life at a welcome point like that, at your wall size.

Your sector’s past, in the café

One rail-ticketing tech company’s 60,000 square foot London headquarters (2026) has a café inspired by vintage railway carriages. Dark walnut joinery, brass accents and Victorian-style tiling set the scene. The office also has a focus zone called the ‘Quiet Carriage’. Canvases drawn from your sector’s history can do the same in a café or social hub, even for a tech firm.

An anniversary

For its bicentenary, the Law Society commissioned a work for 113 Chancery Lane, revealed around December 2025. It was meant to celebrate law accessibly and reflect the diversity and modernity of the profession today, while engaging with its past. An anniversary painting can do both: honor where you began and show who you are now. Our page on paintings for business milestones covers the details.

A legacy piece, or a quiet welcome

A legacy piece works best where people pause, such as a welcome point, a café or a social hub. If you have no emblem or milestone to mark, or the partners prefer a neutral welcome, it is fine to leave it out. The arrival wall then simply takes the register of your client rooms.

03 / Read your district

City brick, Canary Wharf glass, Shoreditch warehouses: cues for the rest of the floor

With the client rooms settled, the rest of the floor can take its cues from the district around it. Deloitte found that refurbishments made up two thirds of the space in central London office construction starts in 2025. One London fit-out firm’s October 2025 article describes how offices differ across the city. Read these as tendencies it reports, not as rules.

What five London settings ask for

Brick floors in the City. Heritage buildings near the Bank of England and St Paul’s often keep or recreate exposed brick, high ceilings and original floors. Frames and palettes can be chosen for brick and timber rather than white plaster.
Glass in Canary Wharf. Fit-outs there use floor-to-ceiling windows and minimalist palettes with bold accent features. The art goes on the solid walls that remain, such as the building core, boardrooms and lift lobbies, and one strong canvas can be that accent. If an installer will hang the work, ask building management which installers may work on the estate.
Warehouses in Shoreditch and Hackney. Tech and creative offices favor an urban warehouse look, with neon brand graphics and bold pops of color drawn from the area’s street-art heritage. Graphic canvases in strong color can match that energy.
Camden and King’s Cross. Offices celebrate their industrial past but aim for warmth, with exposed ductwork painted in feature colors. Warm, textured canvases can pick up those colors.
Westminster and Victoria. The look leans ‘elevated corporate’, with marble receptions, bespoke joinery and more private offices for senior staff. Refined compositions suit it, and each private office adds a smaller wall to count.

If your Canary Wharf team wants a soft landscape, or your City floor wants street-art color, that is what we paint.

04 / Find the real delivery address

Some City towers want the cases sent somewhere else first

In some City towers, the delivery address is not the tower. Occupiers’ instructions for 22 Bishopsgate say only items that can be hand-carried or sent on two wheels go direct, along with Royal Mail. All other deliveries, and every international courier shipment, go to an off-site consolidation center in Borehamwood. They are then batched on to the office, ideally after being pre-advised. One occupier says these limits come from City of London planning conditions on vehicle numbers and timings.

New City developments may face tighter delivery hours. The City’s draft City Plan 2040 policy VT2 would require deliveries to new developments to avoid 7 to 10am, 12 to 2pm and 4 to 7pm on weekdays. On 24 September 2026 the plan was still awaiting adoption, expected by the end of 2026, so VT2 was still a draft rule at that date. The City’s 2018 freight guidance also describes booking systems that turn away deliveries arriving outside the booked time. Some buildings may run a system like this.

Ask your facilities team, then send us the answers

Where your building takes deliveries. At 22 Bishopsgate, that is the consolidation center in Borehamwood, not the tower.
Whether deliveries must be pre-advised into a booked slot

Plywood art shipping cases in three sizes on a concrete floor, one open at the top to show a bubble-wrapped item inside — Plywood cases in three sizes, one open to show the wrapped contents. At a tower with a consolidation center, cases like these may go there first.

05 / Brief the quote

A quote built on each room’s register and your building’s delivery route

Each client room can be its own line in a London quote, so the partners can approve one black-and-white or one-pop room before the rest.

Your kind of firm, the district and the building: a brick heritage floor, a glass tower or a warehouse
The register for each client-facing room: black-and-white, tonal, or one bright pop
Any legacy material, such as a crest file or an anniversary brief, with your rights confirmed
Reference images, the image width and height, and the quantity of each design
Your move-in date, whether each piece is rolled, stretched or framed, and the delivery address your building gives

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 United Kingdom.
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.

Hand-Painted Canvases for London Offices, from Mayfair to Shoreditch