Framky Artists: Photos by Independent Photographers for Your Gallery Wall

Short answer: Framky Artists is a catalogue of photographs by independent photographers at framky.com/en-gb/artists/photos. Open a photo, choose “Add to my photos”, then arrange it in frames together with your own photos. The set arrives ready to hang, with self-adhesive hangers. Every photo is credited with the author’s name.

Not every wall needs only photos from a phone. Sometimes a landscape is what finishes the composition. Sometimes there are not enough family photos for the whole layout. Framky Artists solves that: instead of looking for posters in several shops, you choose photographs in the same place where you design a photo gallery wall.

This article explains what the catalogue is and how to use it. Choosing photos for a gallery is covered in how to choose photos for your home gallery. Ready-made layouts with measurements are in gallery wall layouts with sizes.

What Framky Artists is

Framky Artists is a catalogue of photographs by independent photographers. You choose the photos you like, add them to your photos and design a gallery wall from them. The artists’ photographs go into the same frames as yours, so the whole set looks like one piece.

This is not a separate poster shop. The catalogue sits inside gallery design: an artist’s photo behaves the same way as a photo you upload yourself. The gap between a photo gallery, posters and art stops being an either-or choice.

How to browse the catalogue

The catalogue has three ways to browse.

By category. Nature, landscape, sea and coast, mountains and mist, forest, botanicals, wildlife, architecture, city, abstraction and texture, still life and food, minimalism, aerial photos, night sky and winter.

By colour. You pick a colour that suits the room. That is the fastest route to a consistent palette, which we describe in the article on colour consistency in a gallery.

By place. You can look for photos taken in a particular city. Locations are shown only down to city level.

How to mix artists’ photos with your own

A gallery does not have to be made only of artists’ photographs. They usually work as a backdrop for your photos: a landscape or a nature photo holds the composition, and the family shots add the story.

Three rules that work when you mix them:

• Largest format for the strongest photo. That can be an artist’s photograph or your most important family photo. It depends on what should catch the eye first.
• A shared palette. Choose artists’ photographs in colours that already appear in your photos. The colour filter cuts that down to a few clicks.
• Black and white as the binder. When your photos use different colours, a black-and-white photograph calms the layout. More in black and white and colour in one gallery.

Ideas for wall themes are in photo wall ideas.

From choice to order in 4 steps

1. Open a photo in the Framky Artists catalogue.
2. Choose “Add to my photos”. Repeat for every photo you like.
3. Open the gallery layouts, pick a layout and place the photos in the frames, yours and the artists’.
4. Place the order. The set arrives ready to hang, with self-adhesive hangers.

If you are not sure how many frames the wall can take, start with picture frame arrangement ideas. Every set shows the size of the whole outline, for example Layered Moments M or Stepped Vista M.

Print and frames

We print the artists’ photographs the same way as your photos:

• frames without glass, so there is no glare,
• pigment printing with a set of 12 inks,
• matte photographic paper on a rigid cardboard plate.

Why we leave out glass is explained in why we make photo frames without glass. You have 30 days to return the order.

Who the authors are

Independent photographers take the photos in the catalogue. Each photo shows the author’s name and a link to their page. There you can see their other photos and collections. If one shot appeals to you, it is easy to find others in the same style and build a consistent series from them.

Start with the Framky Artists catalogue, then choose a layout in the photo gallery wall.