Canvas & painting panels

Come and browse our huge selection… over 150 different sizes of ready-made canvases (2 or 4cm frames), cotton (primed white or black), linen (primed white or transparent) and polycotton… We also stock a large range of canvas boards and… canvas on the roll (2.1m wide and can cut you the length of want!)

We have carefully chosen CreateART as a very good value range of superior quality ready-made canvases and we stock their entire range at all times. The stretcher bars are solid with bracing in the gallery quality and the cotton is good, corners are not cut (as in some brands) and we feel they are most definitely worth the extra few dollars compared to the dollar stores ones!! In cotton, they come, in the eco range, in 2 different depths (1.8 and 3.8). They also offer a better quality “Gallery” stretcher in cotton (11.2oz pure cotton primed white and, in some cases, black) in polycotton (15oz polycotton) and in linen with either transparent or white gesso (15oz pure linen). The Gallery quality canvases are 35mm deep, suitable for oil and acrylic, triple primed with acrylic gesso, double stapled on premium pine stretcher bars with 58mm corner bracing. If the sizes suit you, the price is unbeatable!

We also stock a few other products which might interest you…
CANVAS PER METRE (in 2.10m wide) We stock cotton canvas primed in black and white in 12oz, polycotton 14oz primed in white, medium linen in black, white and transparent (12oz)

Our COTTON canvas is a 12oz, 100% cotton. It’s heavyweight (more like denim) and pleasantly textured, displaying small cotton seeds on the surface –a sure sign of a good quality canvas. Also, our priming is bright white and free from any noxious or toxic substances.

If good quality cotton canvas is great to paint on… just wait until you try LINEN. (But watch out because many artists tell us that when they made the switch, their painting got so much better that there was no going back!) Yes, it’s more expensive than cotton yet its a strong and durable cloth that can absorb up to 20% of its weight in moisture before it feels damp so you can “play” with your canvas that has more “give”. The source of linen fibres is the flax plant, whose fibres are stronger than any other natural fibre. These fibres are round, not flat like cotton, which gives linen fabrics their irregular texture. Chemically, the fibres are 70 to 80 per cent cellulose and contain the same oil that is found in the plant’s seeds, that is linseed oil. The natural content of linseed oil preserves the fibres and keeps them flexible. The rope-like quality of the linen fibres produces an irregular texture which is especially ideal for figurative painting because of the sense of depth it gives to the surface. Our linen canvas has triple priming on a foundation sealer, it is traditionally woven to the highest quality, it’s acid-free and suitable for all techniques.

POLYCOTTON is our new blend and the professional polycotton 12oz artists canvas we chose is made to highest quality, milled from 52% Polyester & 48% Cotton. This artist canvas is tightly woven which produces a fantastic painting surface, smooth, great for detailed work, resin work and drum-tight stretching that holds! Apparently it’s also a lot less prone to moulding (a nice plus around here!) Just if you were wondering why not full polyester, it’s because polycotton is far better to stretch and creates much better elasticity in the fabric having the blend of the two materials, helping it hold its shape and staying tight once stretched. Polyester although smooth is quite stiff and does not stretch as well as poly cotton.

PAINTING BOARDS: We stock a range of pine painting panels with back bracing ready to be gessoed or what suits your fancy! ) and also some alumium panels which are becoming very popular.

2 Comments Add yours

  1. Kahlee says:

    Hello, I need to come and purchase a canvas
    Is your store open to the public? Or how do I do that?

    1. admin says:

      Apologies Kahlee as I was away a few days and only just saw this… absolutely both our stores are open and operating but we’ve had issues w an old page from Covid times reappearing and telling customers we were closed! Looking forward to seeing you
      all the best
      Sabine

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