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Top 10 Limited Edition Prints to Elevate Your Home

by Art Fables in On Paper

Building a collection doesn't mean starting with an original — for many collectors, a limited edition print is the first step into a lifelong relationship with an artist's work. Each print in the artfables collection is produced in a strictly numbered run of 150, never reprinted once the edition closes, so what you're bringing home isn't a poster — it's a considered, finite piece of a larger body of work.

Here are ten prints from the collection worth knowing, and why each one earns its place on a wall.

1. Spill The Beans — Danny Cruz — £265

  • A stylised, retro colour-block take on a Heinz Beanz can — Pop Art built from the everyday, not the exotic
  • Bold and saturated, making it a natural focal point in a kitchen, hallway, or home office
  • A good entry point for a collector who wants a piece with personality and craft, not just colour
  • Best hung as a single statement piece rather than grouped

A framed pop art print featuring a stylized Heinz Beanz tomato sauce can in a bold retro color-block design, shown against a light gray background.

2. Rhythm 3 — Femi Okoro — £300

  • A grid of organic, loop-like gestures in black, brown, and beige
  • Carries real motion — the rhythm of the artist's hand is visible in every repeated form
  • Suits a hallway, staircase, or transitional space that benefits from directional energy
  • Neutral enough to sit comfortably alongside warmer or cooler palettes elsewhere in the room

Framed abstract art print featuring a grid of organic, loop-like shapes in black, brown, and beige tones, presented in a black frame with a white mat against a light gray background.

3. It Will Be Okay Again — Ingrid Solberg — £250

  • An impressionistic, cloud-heavy sky over calm water, rendered with real atmospheric weight
  • Quiet and contemplative — a strong choice for a bedroom, study, or reading corner
  • Pairs naturally with natural materials — linen, raw oak, stone
  • Part of a loose two-piece pairing with "It Will Be Okay," for a collector who wants to build a themed grouping

A framed landscape art print featuring an impressionistic scene of a cloudy sky over calm water, presented in a black frame with a white mat against a light beige wall.

4. I Will Remember You — Sarah Whitfield — £350

  • Textured, layered brushstrokes in beige, black, brown, and soft pink
  • Earthy rather than sweet — the pink reads as considered, not decorative
  • Suited to a living room or bedroom where you want warmth without an obvious focal colour
  • A strong choice for a collector building toward a more textural, tactile wall

A framed abstract art print featuring textured brushstrokes in beige, black, brown, and soft pink tones, presented in a black frame with a white mat against a light gray background.

5. Hide & Seek — Théo Marchand — £350

  • A modern concrete building façade abstracted into clean geometric form
  • Structured and architectural — a deliberate contrast to softer, more painterly work elsewhere in a home
  • Ideal for an entryway, office, or any space with strong existing architectural lines
  • Reads equally well in a modern apartment or a converted industrial space

A framed architectural art print featuring a modern concrete building facade with geometric shapes, mounted on a light beige wall.

6. Waiting For You — Rosa Adair — £300

  • A misty, abstracted coastal scene in muted grey, beige, and blue
  • Atmospheric rather than literal — it suggests a place without depicting one directly
  • A natural fit for homes near water, or simply for collectors drawn to a cooler, more reflective palette
  • Complements raw wood, stone, and unbleached linen

A framed landscape art print featuring an abstract depiction of a misty beach or coastal scene in muted gray, beige, and blue tones, presented with a white mat and a thin black frame against a light beige wall.

7. Crator — Otto — £225

  • Expressive black-and-white brushstrokes over a warm beige ground
  • Confident and gestural, with the negative space doing as much work as the mark itself
  • A favourite for collectors building toward a more monochrome, gallery-style wall
  • Scales well — strong as a single piece, equally effective as part of a grouping

Abstract framed wall art featuring black and white expressive brushstrokes on a warm beige background, presented in a black frame with a white mat against a light gray wall.

8. Eyes Closed — Neve Calloway — £190

  • Soft, painterly brushwork in teal, pink, peach, and cream
  • Built from fast, intuitive layering — the immediacy of the process is visible in the finished piece
  • Brings warmth and movement to an otherwise neutral or minimalist room
  • One of the more approachable entry points in the collection, both in price and mood

A framed abstract art print featuring a soft, painterly composition of teal, pink, peach, and cream brushstrokes, presented in a black frame with a white mat against a light gray background.

9. Stillness — Mireille Laurent — £290

  • Vertical brushstrokes in beige, cream, white, black, and soft green
  • Restrained and unhurried, with a quiet, almost meditative rhythm to the composition
  • Well suited to a bedroom or reading nook — a piece to be lived with rather than noticed all at once
  • A strong choice for a collector who wants abstraction with a calmer, more classical foundation

An abstract framed wall art print featuring vertical brushstrokes in beige, cream, white, black, and soft green, presented in a black frame with a white mat against a light gray background.

10. The House II — Kate Stone — £185

  • Blocks of beige, taupe, black, and grey arranged into clean, minimal geometry
  • Precise and architectural — a deliberate counterpoint to the more painterly pieces on this list
  • Suits a study, office, or any space where you want structure without noise
  • Pairs particularly well with Théo Marchand's "Hide & Seek" for a collector building a geometric grouping

Framed abstract geometric wall art featuring blocks of beige, taupe, black, and gray, presented in a black frame with a white mat against a light beige wall.

Choosing Between Them

Rather than starting with "what matches my sofa," start with which of these ten pulls you back a second time. A limited edition print is meant to be lived with, not just placed — and with only 150 numbered pieces in each run, the ones that speak to you now won't be available indefinitely.

Each print listed here is part of a numbered, closed edition. Once a run of 150 is complete, it will not be reprinted.

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