Questions & answers.
The shop
What is Of Nature and Art?
A curated collection of nature painting: botanicals, birds and animals, gardens, land and water. Every work is painted by hand in oil, watercolour, gouache or ink, by artists from Santa Fe to Singapore. Each painting is available as an archival giclée print from $49; originals are listed as they arrive. Nothing here is AI-generated.
Do you sell originals or prints?
Both. Every painting in the collection is offered as a giclée print, in sizes fitted to its proportions. Originals are listed on the Originals page as they arrive and priced individually. Prints are open editions; we would rather keep a painting available than manufacture scarcity.
Who runs it?
Of Nature and Art was started in Singapore by the artist Sara Lai. The collection is chosen by painters, not assembled from open uploads or by an algorithm. It runs from the great nature painters, Liljefors and Thorburn to van Gogh, and living artists are being added beside them. It stays small enough to be chosen one painting at a time.
No AI
Is any of the art AI-generated?
No. Nothing we sell is generated, and nothing AI-assisted is accepted. Every work is a painting by a named artist in a stated medium: oil, watercolour, gouache or ink. There are no disclosure tiers and no exceptions.
Why have an explicit no-AI rule?
Because generated images have spread through much of the online art trade, often unlabelled, and finding a real painting increasingly means wading through them. That is partly why this shop exists.
Generation is cheap now, which makes the opposite scarce. A painting is evidence of attention, of someone looking at a subject long enough to get it right. That is the thing we sell, so the rule is absolute.
How do you know nothing generated slips in?
The collection is small and hand-picked; there are no open uploads. Historic works are documented in museum and archive records. Living painters show us a body of work, not a single file, before anything is listed. A decade of consistent painting is much harder to fake than one image.
The prints
What are the prints?
Giclée on Hahnemühle German Etching, a 310 gsm, 100% alpha-cellulose etching paper with a velvet matte surface. One paper across the whole range, because it flatters oil and watercolour alike. Prints are made to order at fine-art labs in the US, UK, EU and Australia and ship in about a week.
Why one paper and a few sizes instead of a product menu?
Because curation extends to the print. Most sites will put the same image on posters, canvas, acrylic, metal and phone cases; we print on the one paper we would frame for our own walls. Sizes are fitted to each painting's proportions rather than cropped to a standard menu, so panoramas stay panoramic and squares stay square.
Are the prints framed?
Your choice. Frames are solid wood in four finishes, fitted to the print and ready to hang. A few sizes are print-only; each painting's page shows exactly what exists for it.
Compared with other art sites
How is this different from Saatchi Art or Artfinder?
Scale, mostly. Saatchi Art lists original work from hundreds of thousands of artists in every style and medium; Artfinder runs a similar open model with thousands of independent sellers, and, credit to them, also refuses AI-generated art. Openness at that scale means you do the curating. Here that work is done before anything is listed: one subject, the living world, mostly oil and watercolour, chosen painting by painting.
How does it compare with poster sites like Desenio, Juniqe or The Poster Club?
Those are poster shops: large, design-led catalogues of graphic prints and photography at low prices, Desenio and Juniqe at mass scale, The Poster Club with a curated Copenhagen slant. We sell paintings and prints of paintings. Nothing in the collection began as a digital file, and the print exists to carry the painting, on etching paper rather than poster stock.
And King & McGaw, Minted, Artfully Walls or 20x200?
Print publishers, each with a different engine. King & McGaw prints licensed images under museum and estate partnerships, a craft it has built in the UK for over forty years. Minted sells the winners of crowdsourced design challenges. Artfully Walls styles gallery walls from thousands of prints across every genre. 20x200 issues signed and numbered editions at accessible prices. We overlap with all of them on print quality and differ on scope: only nature, only painting, prints and originals both.
And curated galleries like Singulart, Rise Art, Tappan or Uprise Art?
Closest in spirit. All four curate seriously and sell original contemporary art. They cover the whole contemporary field, abstraction, photography, sculpture, digital and more, with originals as the core offer and prices to match. We do one narrow thing: paintings of the living world, with archival prints from $49 alongside the originals, so hanging a serious painting does not have to start at gallery prices.
Practical
Where is Of Nature and Art based?
Singapore. Prints are produced to order at fine-art labs in the US, UK, EU and Australia and ship in about a week.
I paint. Can I join the collection?
If you are predominantly a painter of natural themes such as birds, botanicals, land or water in oil, watercolour, gouache or ink, we would like to see your work. Send a link on the For painters page, not files. We look at everything and reply within a few days.