Bathroom wall art has to put up with steam. This collection gathers motifs that suit a room full of water: Hasui's Morning of Cape Inubo, Hokusai's Yoro Waterfall, an antique blue whale, Julia Charlott's jellyfish and Julius Klinger's swimmer in a striped suit. Every motif comes as an art print on matte fine art paper or as a canvas print, and we make each one to order in our Berlin studio. Above a toilet or a basin we would start with A3.
A framed art print is the safer choice. Our frames in oak, black or brown close the print behind acrylic glass, which keeps the steam off the paper. Hang it on an inside wall above the toilet or beside the basin, and run the extractor fan after a shower. A canvas print has nothing in front of the cotton, so we would only hang one in a bathroom that dries quickly. Humidity limits, mould and hanging height are in our guide to bathroom wall art that survives steam.
Bathroom art prints with water in them
Hasui's woodblock prints are the quiet end, Morning of Cape Inubo with a pink sky over the sea, and Hokusai's Yoro Waterfall falls in straight white lines. For an old engraving look there is the Antique Blue Whale on cream paper and Le Poulpe Colossal, an octopus wrapped around a sailing ship. Julia Charlott's Floating Away is a pink jellyfish on dark green, and Marylène Madou's Koi Pond Warm fills the sheet with orange fish. Julius Klinger drew the swimmer in the striped suit for a bathing issue of the magazine Lustige Blätter. More under Japanese woodblock prints.
Small bathroom wall art: size and frame
One piece is usually enough on a bathroom wall. Above a toilet or a basin we would take an art print in A3 or 50 × 70 cm and leave 15 to 20 cm between the cistern and the lower edge of the frame. Oak suits the Japanese prints, black makes the engravings look sharper, brown goes with wooden cabinets. Canvas prints in 30 × 40 cm fit the narrow wall beside a mirror. They come on a stretcher frame about 2 cm deep in FSC-certified wood, with an optional floating frame in oak, black or brown.
Bathroom wall art that survives steam: how humid a bathroom gets after a shower, which frame keeps an art print safe below 65 % humidity, where to hang it with...
