Hand-painted art production company for hospitality art firms

Most packages of artwork for the hospitality industry mix media: your shop prints, frames and installs the bulk, and the hand-painted share is smaller, more visible and harder to source well. The lines worth placing with a painter:

• Hero walls. Reception and the lobby lounge, the restaurant's long wall: close enough to see brushwork, and often larger than anything sold ready-made.
• Suites. One or two originals per key where the room rate carries it, often a pair or a related series; see guest-room and suite works.
• Texture and relief. Plaster, combed ridges and palette-knife work, which a print imitates in a photograph but not on the wall. See the textured collection.
• Guest-room runs specified as original. When the owner's brief says hand-painted, a run of 100 or 300 is painted to one colour standard.

Where a line could go either way, tell us, and we quote the painted option so you can put both in front of the owner.

What to send depends on where the design came from:

Your studio's designs

Digital artwork, a painted original or a sketch, painted on canvas at your size. A design that is yours to use needs nothing more.

A licensed artist's image

Hand-painted reproductions are offered once the rights holder has given permission, so send that permission with the file.

The hotel's own material

The view from the roof terrace, the façade, a crest or the brand mark, painted from a photograph: see paintings from your own image.

Our catalogue

Some 1,300 ready designs, each of which can be resized, recoloured to the scheme or varied into a related series.

Digital artwork changes a little on its way into paint: gradients pick up brushwork and hairline detail thickens. We point out at quotation where your file will read differently on canvas, and the early stage photographs show the composition while a proportion or a crop can still move.

Identical repeats. One code, one palette, one size, for a corridor or standard-room line where the brand wants the same image throughout. Each canvas is painted by hand, so the pieces are close siblings rather than clones: composition and colour hold, while the brushwork differs the way handwriting does. That difference is why the line is painted, and worth telling the owner up front.

Colourways. One composition in two to four palettes, often one per floor or wing, so the programme reads as one while each floor keeps its own colour. Each colourway gets its own control.

Varied series. The Vary route paints related compositions from one work, so no two rooms on a floor repeat yet the run belongs together; suite pairs and diptychs too.

Write the variation rules onto the schedule: how many colourways, which rooms may repeat, and whether mirror-plan rooms take mirrored compositions. The hotel's side of the same job is on hotel guest-room programmes.

Packaging and paperwork are where a supplier's name usually slips through, so settle them at quotation. Tell us what the tubes, boxes and labels should show, such as your project reference and line codes, and what should travel with a batch sent straight to site, and we confirm in the quote what we can do.

Each quote goes to you alone, so the figure you put to the owner is yours to set.

One thing to plan for: our catalogue is public, so a curious owner could find a catalogue design on this site. Lines painted from your own artwork, or recoloured and varied well away from the original, avoid that. If a design should be painted only for you, we can agree that in advance.

iHomeArt is the trade channel of Siji Art Hub, Foshan, and working behind a hospitality art company suits us: you hold the relationship with the owner, the brand and the designer, and we keep to the painting.

A delivery to site needs someone for the carrier to call: give us the contact you choose, your installer or the hotel's receiving dock. If the designer wants to follow the work, forward our stage photographs from your own address; nothing in the process requires an introduction.

Three openings land in the same quarter, a fourth is out to bid and a fifth moves its handover. What keeps the painted lines on time is notice:

• Send the pipeline, not only the order. Quantities and target dates for projects you expect to win help us plan the dates we quote.
• Batch by zone. Floors, wings or public areas released in the order the site is being fitted out, each with its own date in the quote.
• Keep one-off lines apart. A replacement or a late addition is a single piece: about 10 days to paint, then express delivery, without waiting for a batch.
• Tell us the moment a date moves. Batches still to be painted are re-planned around it.

A large run can travel by air or sea freight rather than express; whichever route suits the order, its delivery date is written into the quote.

Relief, plaster and heavy knife texture travel stretched or framed, since a tube would crack them; if a textured line must reach your workshop rolled, we can agree a thinner texture before painting. We arrange each shipment with the carrier, find the best route for the address and confirm the cost with you before dispatch.

Reorders come in three kinds: a damaged room piece replaced, a second phase or a refurbished wing, and a sister property that wants the same look. Every piece is painted to order rather than drawn from stock, so a reorder never depends on a run still sitting on a shelf.

The record you already hold makes it work: the catalogue code or your own file, the size, colourway and finish, and the final photographs from the first order. The new canvas is painted against them and approved stage by stage like the first. It is a new hand-painted original, so it matches as a sibling painted from the same spec does.