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For a particular painting, a small commission, or simply to ask — a few honest sentences are more than enough. There is no form, no checkout, no autoresponder. Replies come back the way letters used to: by the same hand, after a few quiet days.

Email is here on purpose. It is the slowest, warmest tool we still have. It asks nothing of you that you have not already decided to give. A handful of sentences is plenty. A photograph of the room the painting would live in — the lamp, the chair, the wall — is welcome, but never required.

— Worth mentioning, gently

• Which piece — a link from the Works page is enough.
• Where it would live: the city, the room, the kind of light that comes in through the window when nobody is home.
• Timing — is it for a particular occasion, or no rush at all?

— What you will not be asked for

• An account, a password, a profile.
• A phone number, unless shipping insists.
• Anything that would end up in a database somewhere.

A painting is a quiet thing. It seems right to begin its life with a quiet correspondence.