Many people seem unsure as to how to correctly hang an artwork. While there is no right or wrong way, there is a method that maximizes visibility and guarantees consistency throughout your home as your collection grows and you hang more art on your walls. To make things easy, our frames are custom fitted with the highest quality hardware for hanging and are ready for installation, all you need is picture hook, a measuring tape, a graphite pencil and a hammer. Make sure that you choose a picture hook that can support the weight of the piece you plan on hanging.

TWFA Weight Guide for framed prints:

• Small - 3.0 kg
• Medium - 3.5 kg
• Large -  4.0 kg
• XL - 5.0 kg

Here is a simple step by step guide to successfully hang your TWFA print.

Step 1. Using the measuring tape, measure the total horizontal width of the wall you have chosen to hang the artwork on. Mark the halfway point with the graphite pencil – these marks can easily be erased.

Step 2.  

From the horizontal halfway point, measure the vertical distance from the floor to your eye level (approx. 60 - 65 inches) and mark that point on the wall. When looking at an artwork your eye should fall 1/3 of the way down from the top of the artwork. 

  Step 3. At the vertical point you just marked, hammer the picture hook into your plaster wall. The picture hook goes into the wall on an angle, and is able to support more weight than a simple nail or screw.   Step 4. Grab the center point of the string at the back of the picture frame and hang that point over the picture hook.

Step 6. 

Level the painting to make sure that it is hanging evenly. All done!

 

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We believe that great art should be accessible and have developed an affordable, ever evolving print portfolio that delivers an authentic collecting experience to novices and experts alike. Keep up to date with our artists by subscribing to TWFA's monthly newsletter on our Homepage. 

Here's what our artists are up to this week:

• Artists Rebecca Norton & Jeremy Gilbert Rolfe discuss drawing and abstraction in this edition of Art Critical:

                    http://abstractcritical.com/article/drawing-in-abstract-painting-ten-perspectives/

• Incredible New York based artist Christian Haub joins TWFA."I can remember Chris Wool visiting the studio in about 1980 and telling me that no one our generation was making paintings like mine. I thought that was a good thing, but there was really not much I could do about it anyway." CH For limited edition prints by Christian Haub visit:

                    http://twfineart.com/product-category/artists/christian-haub-artists/

[caption id="attachment_6264" align="aligncenter" width="257"]    Michael Goldberg, Christian Haub 2011[/caption]

• Carlson Hatton's solo show 'Stupor' opens this weekend at Barrett Art Gallery in Los Angeles. Hatton's visually captivating, sometimes unsettling vision of reality is something to behold!

• Emily Silver is featured in the SUR: Biennial, including a great 8 page spread featuring Silver's sculptural work. "This body of work seeks to examine the space between the celebratory, and the tragedy that simultaneously exist in the life of an event". Visit twfineart.com to view Silver's print portfolio.

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For those of you unfamiliar with the rising art star Carlson Hatton, this is a very worthwhile read. Hatton is featured as February's Artist of the Week and the accompanying interview gives a fantastic insight into his work. "I want to tap into the complexity that we’re surrounded by. We have to walk with blinders on so that we can get through the day. I always liked the thought that the cubists were portraying the complexity of how we really might see our surroundings." CH For limited edition Cotton Rag prints of Hatton's work, visit TW Fine Art and browse through his print portfolio. These are true collector pieces!   [caption id="attachment_3954" align="alignnone" width="253"] Strangers # 1, Painting, Carlson Hatton 2012[/caption] http://theawards.co/carlsonhatton/

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Keep an eye out for a gorgeous series of prints by Sydney artist Clementine Barnes - COMING SOON to TWFA! In the meantime, if you live in Sydney check out her work in person in an exhibition at SNO Contemporary Art Projects in Marrickville, opening this Saturday 8 February and running until Feb 24.      

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Veronica Ibanez's interest in both time and the movement of light has been beautifully captured in a body of work titled 4:36pm. In each sculptural piece, a series of time lapsed photographs are superimposed and illuminated to capture multiple moments of time and light within a stationary form. Each piece is a glowing reminder of the past, our urban environment and the inevitable progression of time. "Light is moving constantly, shaping everything around us, changing it's color, temperature and intensity. This project is a part of my obsessive observation of light and it's effect on the spaces and environments that we live, and the silent transformations of what we see." VIR. For more work, visit http://www.virfotografia.com/index.php?/project/436-pm/

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