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ArtMarket

The journal

Guides & stories for collectors

Practical guides to choosing, sizing, hanging, framing and collecting fine-art prints — written for people buying art for a real room, not a gallery.

The ArtMarket Journal is 33 practical guides to buying, sizing, hanging, framing and caring for fine-art prints, written for people furnishing a real room rather than for dealers. The guides split into three strands: home and styling, buying and collecting, and photography. None of them sells a specific work.

Guides
33
Strands
3

Home & Styling

15

Buying & Collecting

11

Photography

7

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Who the Journal is for

These 33 guides are written for someone buying art for a real room, not for dealers or investors. They answer the questions that come up between deciding you want something on the wall and having it hang there: what size, how high, what frame, how to group pieces, how to tell a signed original print from a poster, and how to keep one from fading.

No guide here sells a specific work. Where one links into the gallery it is because the example is easier to see than to describe.

Three strands

Home and styling covers the spatial decisions — sizing to furniture, hanging heights, gallery-wall layout, choosing art room by room and by interior style, and how the light in a given room changes what a print looks like at different hours.

Buying and collecting covers the decision itself — what to spend, what actually gives a print value, how limited and open editions differ in practice, and how to buy online without relying on a photograph of a photograph.

Photography covers the object — what makes a photograph fine-art rather than decorative, how C-type, giclée and archival pigment printing differ, what an edition number commits a gallery to, and the storage and light conditions that decide whether a print still looks right in twenty years.

Where to start

If you are buying your first piece, start with sizing and hanging height: they are the two decisions that most often go wrong, and both are cheap to get right and expensive to fix once there are holes in the wall.

If you already own prints and are wondering whether you are looking after them properly, start with the framing and light guides. Fading and cockling are almost always a glazing or humidity problem rather than a print-quality one, and both are far cheaper to prevent than to reverse.

And if you are still deciding whether to buy a print at all rather than a canvas or a poster, the guides on editions, signatures and what to spend are the ones that explain what the price difference is actually paying for. None of them will tell you to spend more than you meant to.

Questions readers ask most

What is the ArtMarket Journal?

33 practical guides to buying, sizing, hanging, framing and caring for fine-art prints, written for someone furnishing a real room rather than for dealers. None of them sells a specific work.

How high should art be hung?

Centre the piece at roughly 145–150 cm from the floor, which puts it at average eye level. The exception is over furniture: there, hang so the bottom edge clears the sofa or headboard by about 15–20 cm, even if that pushes the centre lower.

How do I tell a signed original print from a poster?

A hand signature and a stated edition size. Every work in this gallery is one of 25 and is signed by the artist. A poster is an open, unlimited reproduction with no signature and usually no stated paper stock.

How do I stop a print fading?

Keep it out of direct sun, use UV-filtering glazing, and avoid hanging it above a radiator or in a bathroom. Fading and cockling are almost always a glazing or humidity problem rather than a print-quality one, and both are far cheaper to prevent than to reverse.

Which guide should I read first?

Sizing and hanging height. They are the two decisions that most often go wrong, and both are cheap to get right and expensive to fix once there are holes in the wall.