Art Journal

Practical, authoritative guides for collectors, designers, architects and homeowners.

• How To Choose Art For A Large Wall

  A practical framework for sizing art to a genuinely large wall — width, not just height, and why two smaller works rarely read as well as one considered piece.

  For collectors · 5 min read

• Original Art vs Prints: What Collectors Should Know

  Ritushka does not sell prints — only signed originals. Here is the practical difference that decision makes for value, texture and what actually arrives at your door.

  For interior designers · 6 min read

• How To Commission An Abstract Painting

  What actually happens between briefing a commission and hanging it — brief, proposal, four to eight weeks of studio time, delivery. The real sequence, not a sales pitch.

  For art consultants · 9 min read

• Best Art For Coastal Homes

  The mistake most coastal homes make with their art: choosing literal seascapes instead of the abstracted light and horizon that actually holds up over years of daily living with a piece.

  For collectors · 10 min read

• The Complete Art Placement Guide

  The full mechanics of hanging art well: eye-level centring, furniture clearance, wall-fill percentage and negative space, in one reference.

  For interior designers · 5 min read

• Is Original Art A Good Investment?

  A grounded answer, not a sales pitch: what actually drives resale value in original art, what doesn't, and the paperwork that protects it either way.

  For architects · 6 min read

• How To Hang Oversized Paintings

  The practical mechanics specific to genuinely oversized canvases — weight-rated fixings, two-point hanging, crating lead times — that a standard hanging guide skips.

  For luxury homeowners · 7 min read

• How Architects Specify Art For New Builds

  Specifying art before a wall exists means working from plans, not photographs — what to lock in early, and what to leave until the room is actually built.

  For interior designers · 10 min read

• Art For Property Developers: Display Suites That Sell

  Art in a display suite has one job — make the room feel finished and aspirational to a buyer who's there for twenty minutes. Practical guidance for that specific brief.

  For architects · 5 min read

• Colour Theory For Choosing Abstract Art

  The one colour rule that actually matters when buying abstract art for a room: echo an existing accent, don't try to match it exactly.

  For luxury homeowners · 6 min read

• How To Care For An Acrylic Painting

  Acrylic behaves differently to oil over the long term — what actually threatens the surface, and the two things (sunlight, solvents) that cause almost all the damage.

  For art consultants · 7 min read

• Framing vs Unframed: Contemporary Canvas Art

  Deep-edge canvas doesn't need a frame to look finished — when to leave it bare, and the specific cases where a slim frame genuinely earns its place.

  For collectors · 8 min read

• How Art Consultants Work With Collectors

  What a working relationship between an art consultant and this studio actually looks like — briefing, previews, trade terms — from the artist's side of the desk.

  For architects · 10 min read

• Commissioning Art For A Corporate Lobby

  A lobby commission answers to a different brief than a home does — durability, scale from a distance, and a palette that reads consistently under commercial lighting.

  For luxury homeowners · 5 min read

• How To Build A Cohesive Art Collection

  A cohesive collection is built on one shared thread, not identical pieces — the difference between a considered wall of art and a mismatched one.

  For collectors · 7 min read

• Buying Art As An Interior Designer: A Workflow

  The repeatable process — not the one-off purchase — that turns sourcing original art into something a design practice can build into every project without reinventing it each time.

  For architects · 9 min read

• Texture And Materiality In Abstract Painting

  Why texture is the one quality a print or a screen can never actually show you — and what to look for in person that a photograph of a painting hides.

  For luxury homeowners · 10 min read

• How To Light A Large Painting

  One number matters more than any other for lighting art well: roughly thirty degrees. Here's why that angle works and what happens either side of it.

  For art consultants · 5 min read

• Art For Hotels And Hospitality Spaces

  Hospitality art has to survive being seen by thousands of different people for years, in spaces designed around flow, not contemplation. That changes the brief entirely.

  For collectors · 6 min read

• Understanding Certificates Of Authenticity

  What the certificate that ships with every original actually proves, why it matters years later at resale or insurance time, and how to keep it usable.

  For interior designers · 7 min read

• Art Shipping And Insurance Explained

  What worldwide insured shipping actually covers, what it doesn't, and the practical difference between how small and large works travel internationally.

  For interior designers · 6 min read

• Why Linen Canvas Matters

  What actually differs between linen and cotton canvas — weight, longevity, cost — and the honest questions worth asking before assuming a work is one or the other.

  For architects · 7 min read

• The Difference Between Landscape And Seascape Abstraction

  Landscape and seascape abstraction aren't just different subjects — they behave differently on the wall, in palette, horizon and movement. Here's the actual distinction.

  For luxury homeowners · 8 min read

• How Buyers Agents Add Value With Art

  Where art fits in a buyer's agent's actual scope of work — property styling for resale versus a genuine acquisition for a client who's moving in, and why the brief differs.

  For collectors · 10 min read

• How To Price Original Art

  How this studio actually prices work — size-driven, transparent, published — and the honest reasons prices vary between two paintings of a similar size.

  For architects · 6 min read

• Galleries vs Buying Direct From The Artist

  What a gallery adds to a purchase that buying direct doesn't — and, just as honestly, what buying direct from the studio offers that a gallery markup doesn't.

  For luxury homeowners · 7 min read

• How To Commission A Diptych Or Triptych

  A multi-panel commission isn't just one painting split in two or three — it changes the brief around gaps, alignment and how the piece is meant to be read as a whole.

  For interior designers · 10 min read

• How Designers Present Art To Clients

  The gap between an art recommendation a client trusts and one they hesitate on usually isn't the work itself — it's how it's presented. Practical presentation tactics that close that gap.

  For art consultants · 7 min read

• Investing In Emerging Australian Artists

  What "emerging" actually signals for value and risk, and what to look for in an emerging Australian artist's practice before committing to a body of work early.

  For interior designers · 9 min read

• How To Acquire A Sold-Out Series Work

  The specific piece you wanted has sold — what actually happens next, and why a related commission is usually the better path than waiting for a resale.

  For architects · 10 min read

• A Collector’s Guide To Contemporary Abstraction

  A short, honest orientation to contemporary abstraction for a new collector — what to actually look at, and the two questions worth asking before any purchase.

  For art consultants · 6 min read