The best sources for stylish and affordable prints
When you're decorating a house, there are so many places you have to allocate budget. It's all very well having your dream paint colours and curtain fabric, but without something to hang on the walls, it won't feel like home. The problem is, art can often be the last thing you think of during a renovation and by then, the budget can be pretty tight. Searching antiques shops is a wonderful way to find affordable pieces with a story to them, but prints are another way to bring colour and personality to your space. We've rounded up the best places to buy affordable and tasteful prints from, in a range of styles.
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1/15Print~Sisters
Online store Print~Sisters offers a covetable edit of affordable prints inspired by an archive of textile designs that date back to the 1800s. The artworks are printed on bamboo paper in limited editions of 50. ‘There are thousands of designs,’ says Claudia Clinton-Smith, who launched the site with her sister Alexia last year. ‘We’re currently printing fabrics and making home accessories, but still have so many designs to sift through.’
2/15Partnership Editions
Partnership Editions is a brilliant source for art of all mediums, and prints are no different. Representing a diverse range of female artists, the prints are available framed or unframed, depending on your budget. Think painterly pieces and modern lines.
Pictured: Shrimp on Blue Plate and Mackerel on Red Plate prints by Julianna Byrne, £100 each
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King & McGaw
One of the biggest and best websites for prints, King & McGaw has a huge selection, from rare exhibition posters to limited edition collections with contemporary artists (we love their collaboration with Tom Hammick, pictured). You can pick up plenty of beautiful things (framed), in the £150-£250 range, and you're bound to find something you like.
Pictured, Koodge's Garden, 2022
4/15Tinsmiths
This charming homewares shop in Ledbury sells a selection of artists' prints, many of them woodcuts and linocuts by the likes of Mark Hearld, Susie Hetherington and Paul Bommer. Our favourites are the letterpress prints by the historic local press Tilley Printing. In bright colours with beautiful typography and intriguing words by the late poet Nick Alexander, they make beautiful decorative additions to any space, and at £27, are an absolute steal. Read more about Tilley Printing here.
Pictured, Look Up!
5/15PSTR Studio
Netherlands-based PSTR Studio has a wealth of unique vintage prints alongside new creations inspired by classic art. There are entire sections dedicated to Bauhaus-inspired works, as well as French masters and so much more. Their Japandi collection is wonderful and the site has everything from pretty impressionist style art to graphic designs and modern works.
Pictured: 'Yatsuo no Tsubaki – Woodblock Print III’, €74.
6/15The Royal Academy
Alongside their always excellent exhibition posters by the likes of David Hockney, the Royal Academy has a stellar line up of affordable art on offer, with a few framed pieces amongst a host of unframed prints and posters. Picasso prints mix among all the Summer Exhibition posters from across the years, which are always beautiful.
Pictured: Mado Mood poster, £49
7/15Domenica Marland
Since 2018, young art dealer Domenica Marland has been sourcing pieces from a range of contemporary artists and giving them a space to reach a new audience. There's everything from ceramics to collage work, via paintings and a few prints. She has a wonderful eye for finding pieces that are unusual yet hit the zeitgeist without being trendy or passé.
Pictured: 'Athena' by Hannah Watts, collage, £185
8/15Petri Prints
Petri Prints choose antique prints to carefully reproduce and is our secret source for botanical and cookery prints from previous eras. They're best bought in multiples to either create a gallery wall or cluster of similar artworks and there are occasionally some original antiques to choose from too.
Pictured: The Sweetcorn, £100
9/15Blue Shop Cottage
Blue Shop Cottage is an arts and community hub in Camberwell that hosts events and exhibitions as well as selling artists' work. With over 200 works from 70 artists worldwide, the website has a wonderful range of affordable pieces that comprise collage, painting and original prints. Soho House use Blue Shop Cottage – run by Ocki Magill – as a place to source art so you know it has a good selection.
10/15The Drum
They may not be prints but these framed, pressed Irish seaweed artworks by Flora Kinnaird as fast becoming a cult item. Flora collects, dries and frames every single piece of seaweed herself, harvesting the pink beauties from the Irish coast around County Donegal. She sells them in one-off drops on her website, announced via her Instagram and they sell out instantly every time.
11/15Tate Shop
From Barbara Hepworth to Matisse, Kandinsky to Frank Bowling, the Tate's shop has a wonderful selection of artists' prints, all available either as prints or on canvas, framed or unframed and in a variety of sizes. There are posters as well as prints for those who like something a little more graphic.
Pictured: Coffee by Pierre Bonnard, £25
12/15Wondering People
Similar to Domenica Marland, Wondering People is a platform for emerging artists to give them a foothold in the art world. Coinciding with the first national lockdown, it launched in March 2020, the ideal time to give artists a platform. There are photography prints, paintings and a rather intriguing section called 'Oddities' to browse.
Pictured: Wadi Rum by Eleanor Brade, £100
13/15Desenio
With the simple mantra that stylish wall art should be affordable to anyone. Alongside the art, there are frames, hangers, picture ledges and more – everything you need to hang art properly.
Pictured: Power Flower No 1, £12.95
14/15Lucy Laucht
Photographer Lucy Laucht has an excellent selection of limited edition travel prints available to buy on her website. Lucy’s charming film photography – largely focused on beaches in Italy – will evoke nostalgic memories of holidays gone by. It’s also worth noticing that a percentage of every sale goes to Choose Love Help Refugees foundation.
Pictured: Ponta da Piedade, 10x14 inches, £85
15/15Liberty
The iconic London department store now offers a range of affordable prints from various shops and artists, some are especially affordable – starting around the £45 mark. Take a look online as there are many to choose from, including prints from Liberty's own archives of floral and geometric patterns.
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