Linda Barker thinks CanvasRus’s Collage Canvas is "fabulous" and with over 17 years expertise in the interior design industry her style and design knowledge is trusted and well respected.

Cippenham On Meadows, in Slough, was the location for Thursday’s 60 Minute Makeover and the family member to be surprised was a loving grandmother called Maisie. Both Linda and Catherine, the show’s presenter, thought Maisie’s cosy flat needed some updating and freshening up.

CanvasRus supplied a collection of stylish feminine canvas prints for Maisie’s bedroom. Dusk Rose 1 and 2, Choc Buds and Choc Maples really flattered the berry colours Linda had chosen for that room. Then the lounge was highlighted by a 30x30" photographic Collage Canvas print.

In the second quarter of each 60 Minute Makeover show there’s a feature called ‘Rummage’ where the interior designer chooses his or her three favourite furniture or accessory pieces for that makeover. Linda Barker chose to select the CanvasRus photos on canvas service – called Collage Canvas.

Linda Barker (says whilst removing the photo canvas from it’s box): "oh, and I’ve got this fabulous canvas because she’s [Maisie] such a family orientated woman."
Catherine Gee: "oh Linda you’re such a superstar."
Linda Barker: "it’s by CanvasRus"
Linda Barker (say pointing to the photos): "these are all her grandchildren. These are her two girls and her son."
Catherine Gee: "yes because she’s got three children and six grandchildren."
Linda Barker: "and all her grandchildren. So I’m sure she’ll be thrilled with this."
Catherine Gee: "she will love this."
Linda Barker: "she likes her [photo] pictures but they’ve all been very small in her room in tiny little frames.

If you would like any further details on the exact digitally printed canvas pictures or online photos to canvas service shown in this episode please CLICK HERE to be directed to the CanvasRus TV pages.

CanvasRus’ Pop Art canvas prints have been personally requested by Ty Pennington to use on his new TV show Homes For The Brave on Sky channel 246 and Virgin channel 265.

Famous for his hit US TV show Extreme Makeover, Ty Pennington has been in the UK recently filming a new makeover show where he helps to change the home lives of five British service men and women. "These guys are so dedicated to servicing their Country they haven’t had time to dedicate to their homes. That’s where I [Ty Pennington] come in." A truly heart warming show where the family move out for a few days and Ty moves his decorating team in to transform their home.

CanvasRus was contacted back in April as Ty had been on their website and decided that two Pop Art Warhol effect canvases where exactly what the daughters twin bedroom needed. CanvasRus’ graphic designer Erin Rafferty created the artwork from original family photos emailed in. The soft canvas print colours where specifically requested to flatter the room’s décor.

"The one way to add a little pop to a room is to see a little Pop Art. It really adds some art, colour and canvas fun. Now they [the daughters] can have some fun in their own room." quote by Ty Pennington

There are twelve Your Art effects offered by CanvasRus not just the iconic Pop Art effects. This service is all about transforming your own personal photos into retro, iconic, urban or illustrative looking prints on canvas. Erin creates each piece of canvas wall art individually so no two prints onto canvas look the same.

To order – it’s as simple as emailing your personal photo direct to Erin. She then emails you a proof of the finished artwork which (if agreed to) is then digitally printed and delivered to you.

Prices for the artwork start from as little as £30 for a single person/head shot. And for a 12x12" canvas (£25) + the artwork cost (£30) the total can be as little as £55 for a truly bespoke print to canvas. And as all this graphic design work is done by hand rather than automated through a piece of computer software – this would make an amazing keepsake.

If you’d like to keep up with Ty Pennington, and maybe find out more on Homes For The Brave, click here to read his On The Road Again Blog.

CanvasRus’s waterproof prints onto canvas have been acclaimed by Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen as his "hero piece". Interior designer to the stars Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen has designed ITV’s This Morning’s whole patio around one of CanvasRus’s prints on canvas – Peacock.

CanvasRus is very proud that they were approached for prints to canvas by the This Morning team on behalf of Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen. He visited each of the eight online galleries and chose three separate images – Crystal, from the Contemporary Gallery, Peacock, from the Wild Gallery and Leaf from the Floral Gallery. Five canvas prints were made up for him in total. (two Crystal, two Leaf and one Peacock). All of these were made up as large scale 36x36" canvas pictures which looked stunning both close up and from a distance.

The reason for Laurence’s patio design scheme was to help inspire people to make their outdoor spaces more exciting. "It’s not just about planting – but it can be made more fun with decorating."

In this increasingly dismal and blustery weather does your garden look a little sad and forgotten about? The leaves have dropped and with this recent rain most gardens look sodden and a little tired. CanvasRus has the answer with their Waterproof Canvas Prints. Great for hanging over unsightly external walls, fence panels or just to brighten up a dark corner.

Bring colour and life back to your garden this autumn/winter with Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen’s highly recommended waterproof prints to canvas. You could choose a beautiful floral canvas picture or even an atmospheric seaside landscape. There really is an image for everyone with CanvasRus.

If you’d like more information about the interview Laurence gave about CanvasRus’s canvas printing CLICK HERE. To visit Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen’s website CLICK HERE.

Kathryn Rayward, the famously flamboyant interior designer, has ordered over 130 prints on canvas by CanvasRus for her many TV design projects. As one of the more vibrant TV interior designers, with her canvas wall art choices, she’s never afraid of being bold with style, colour or theme.

Kathryn has worked with the 60 Minute Makeover team for over 5 series now. For numerous episodes of the show she’s asked to use CanvasRus’s canvas photos service. These canvas prints are usually of the family who the home makeover’s for but she does also supply her own photography ideas. She happily embraces hanging large scale photos onto canvas – whether a single photo on one canvas or a single image separated over a Multiple Tiled Canvas.

Kathryn’s confidence in pulling together a room’s design scheme is always refreshing to watch. Her choice of canvas pictures are usually chosen as focal points and have ranged from the retro looking 3 canvases of Flying Ducks, in the Wild Gallery, through to the ever popular White Orchids in the Floral Gallery.

One noticeable working trait Kathryn has is that, in all these years, she’s never ordered the same canvas picture more than twice. This is highly unusual as most designers have particular canvas print favourites that they’re comfortable to fall back on. Kathryn really does tailor each room’s design to the owner of the home.

If you’d like more information on Kathryn’s latest projects click here to follow her on Twitter Page.

The dynamic interior design duo that are Colin and Justin have requested over 30 canvas prints from CanvasRus’ online galleries. The particular images that the boys chose came from the Scapes, Contemporary, Abstract and Floral Galleries.

CanvasRus is a UK based digital printers who specialises in personal, and professional, photos onto canvas. For one particular TV makeover show Colin and Justin asked CanvasRus for three close up tree bark texture photographs to be transformed into canvas photos. These different tree bark images were all made up into 20x20" large scale canvas pictures which made a stunning focal point to the lounge they were hung in.

Colin and Justin are well known for their gorgeously vivid and bold design schemes. The types of canvas print that Colin and Justin chose from the online galleries ranged from the soft feminine Azure Vintage through to the masculine graphic Maple Leaves. Each room’s artwork was always carefully thought through flattering the colour and style of the surrounding décor.

If you would like more information about Colin and Justin click here to link through to their Facebook page or you can see them on 60 Minute Makeover, at 2pm, in tomorrow’s episode from Otford in Kent.

Julia Kendall, well known for her stunning interior design projects in DIY SOS and 60 Minute Makeover, has employed the help of CanvasRus to make up stunning photos onto canvas.

Personal photos always make an impact on a room. Have you ever thought about transforming your favourite holiday snaps or family celebration pics into a canvas print? Whether your room is minimally decorated or you’re a lover of the eclectic style – the addition of a digitally printed photo on canvas creates a great talking and focal point.

Julia Kendall has requested thirty five photos to canvas over the last 5 years for different TV projects. These prints have ranged from professional images, client family photos as well as photographs chosen from CanvasRus’ Floral Gallery and Wild Gallery. Specific gallery images that she’s chosen are – Evening Walk, White Pebbles, Orange Gerbera and Sunburst Bloom all photographically atmospheric.

The CanvasRus Pop Art styled canvas pictures have been a firm favourite for many interior designers over the years. Julia decided that for one particular 60 Minute Makeover episode (in Bampton) that she wanted a Warhol effect Multiple Tiled Canvas.

One reason CanvasRus Your Art styles are so popular is because each piece of artwork created is done by hand. Many competitors will put your photograph through a piece of software which will automate and loose any subtleties. CanvasRus has the skills of their graphic designer Erin who creates each request herself and even colour matches to paint samples if needed. Julia’s Warhol effect canvas photo was designed in pastel colours and worked beautifully as part of the room’s design scheme.

If you’d like to know more of Julia’s thoughts on interior design and behind the scenes on DIY SOS click here to read her Blog.

For five years CanvasRus has been supplying canvas prints to the very lovely Scottish interior designer and presenter John Amabile. Best, and most recently, known for his amazing feats of redesign and decoration on 60 Minute Makeover - John’s creative expertise has left every family home a happier and more beautiful place to live.

John’s advice on interior décor is cleverly summed up in his comment "mix your look with funky accessories to bring your personality into your home." CanvasRus offer a number of different ways to introduce personality and sentiment through canvas pictures.

John’s TV work spans a number of shows - from Carol Vorderman’s Better Homes, GMTV as well as the Daily Mail Dream Cottage on the UKStyle channel. On 60 Minute Makeover John’s very kindly incorporated 12 family photos onto canvas all digitally printed by CanvasRus. The reaction of the families to their canvas art, as they walk round their newly decorated homes, really shows the power of personality. Canvas photos add a contemporary and funky edge to any interior whether simple or eclectic in styling.

Over the last five years Johns used over 100 of CanvasRus’ gallery images. His favourite online gallery, out of the eight, would have to be the Floral Gallery closely followed by the Scapes Gallery. Particular canvas art prints he’s regularly used are Blue Orchids, White Orchids, X-Ray leaves and White Pebbles.

John also runs Amabile Designs, with Carol Yates, which is a highly successful interior design consultancy based up in Glasgow. The two of them have even launched a gorgeous collection of curtains, cushions, blinds, bedspreads etc under the name Expressions. Click here to follow the lovely John on Twitter.

George Clarke, popular TV architect/presenter and writer, used CanvasRus for accurately recreating photos onto canvas which accessorised many of his TV renovation projects.

Best known for his inspirational The Home Show and also his Restoration Man TV series, both on Channel 4, George Clarke has to be one of the most popular property presenters on screen at the moment. His beautiful structural (not forgetting practical) designs shout contemporary style and elegance. White walls balanced with as much natural day light as possible make for the perfect environment for touches of canvas print personality.

CanvasRus has supplied both series of The Home Show with over 30 canvas prints. These have ranged from the stunning multiple tiled canvases of Aqua Stone 4, which made an amazing focal point to the room, through to professional and also personal photos to canvas. Ninety percent of the show’s printed canvas requests were from supplied photographs uploaded to the website. Some of these were favourite family photos and others were professional photography needing permission to use. Once hung though the canvas pictures brought the incredible white structural surroundings to life. What ever the look George needed - CanvasRus accurately digitally printed the photo canvas to fit.

George Clarke is a well respected architect, lecturer and writer with his own architectural practice called Clarke Desai. He also writes a page of property Know-How for Your Home magazine each month. If you would like any hints and tips for renovating your property visit George’s website for more information.

If you too would like to add a touch of personality and elegance to your walls with personal prints onto canvas CLICK HERE to read more and upload your favourite photos.

Accomplished, and celebrity, interior designer Derek Taylor has been incorporating CanvasRus’ gallery prints on canvas into his design schemes for six years now.

Derek Taylor is one of the original 60 Minute Makeover designers. The show started back in 2004 and was presented by Claire Sweeney. Still going strong Derek’s sense of fun and wonderfully creative streak is great inspiration for anyone looking for ideas to decorate their home.

Although not frightened to work with bold colours Derek has a way with softer, muted tones that can be beautifully accessorised with a canvas print or two. His most popular Gallery image request from us has to be the four Cocoa Bloom images in the Floral Gallery. Derek has used these canvas pictures in many dining rooms, bedrooms as well as lounges. They’re a very flexible style of digitally printed wall art that can add a sense of softness when accessorising contemporary furniture or create a modern feel to a more traditional taste.

Derek’s asked for many different gallery images from CanvasRus over the years. His top five prints to canvas (after the four Cocoa Blooms) would have to be Autumnal 1, Autumnal 2, Blossom A, Blossom B and Wave.
If you’d like to keep up to date with Derek on his Blog visit his My Space pages by clicking here.

David Domoney, the award winning gardening expert, is well known for his appearances on ITV1’s This Morning, Better Homes, GMTV and 60 Minute Makeover. CanvasRus met with David in Christmas 2008 and he’s been an enthusiastic fan of their waterproof photo prints on canvas ever since (directly incorporating them into his landscape/garden designs).

CanvasRus is proud to have supplied digitally printed photos onto canvas for many of David’s TV gardening projects and also his exhibition work. In March of last year CanvasRus supplied four large-scale sets of Multiple Tiled canvas prints for his Ideal Home Show stand at Earls Court. The images he chose for his three garden designs were Wave for his Oceana Garden, Tropical Blues for his Spherica garden and Pink Bloom for his Geometrica Garden.

David is also the gardening guru for ITV1’s This Morning show. CanvasRus has supplied waterproof canvas photos as the backdrop artwork to David’s sets. These are always colour co-ordinated and seasonal to what he’s planting and working with.

60 Minute Makeover garden designs are always planned to the last detail by David and his team. CanvasRus has even been invited twice to the makeovers to hang their waterproof canvas pictures. Not only are the photos to canvas a great focal point for a garden but they’re also an easy and affordable way to disguise an unsightly wall or fence. David always loves the way you can add extra colour and drama to a landscape design through canvas art.

David’s achievements are too many to explain here but suffice to say he’s gardener to many A and B list’er stars and has won Gold Medal at the Chelsea Flower Show 2009 (plus more than 20 more Royal Horticultural Medals for gardening design). Click here to visit his website and read more on his accomplishments.

Danielle Proud, craft queen and DIY expert, interior designer, author and writer for the a Sunday Times column, is now the resident interior designer for ITV1's This Morning where she recently requested four gallery canvas prints from CanvasRus.

Danielle has been seen on our TV screens in ITV1’s House Gift (with Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, Gillian Anderson Price and Tom Keane) and most recently as presenter of A Room To Be Proud Of, a pre-recorded feature, on This Morning.

We were approached for canvas pictures, in mid June, by one of the This Morning team as Danielle had seen a couple of images she liked in CanvasRus’ Wild Gallery. The Room To be Proud Of feature was for a deserving couple based in Bristol - the husband suffered with MS. The bright and cheerful lounge design scheme was typical of Danielle’s style – modern chic with a touch of bohemian. The two gallery images she chose were Peacock and Zebra. With lovely expanses of wall space to work with Danielle had decided she wanted two of each canvas print (all four at 20x20"). For a photo of the Peacock prints on canvas in situ click here to see our TV pages.

Annie Hazell, who runs a highly successful interior design business in the Cotswolds, has very kindly requested many canvas prints and photos onto canvas to accessorise her interior design schemes.

Her, much sort after, design expertise has been seen on TV in shows such as The Hotel Inspector (with both Ruth Watson and latterly Alex Polizzi), ITV1’s This Morning and 60 Minute Makeover.

Annie’s design work for Hotel Inspector is all behind scenes. Well, you didn’t think the Inspectors (Alex or Ruth) did any of the interior design did you? Annie’s creative imagination and up to the minute knowledge of interior trends always results in stunning hotel room transformations. Most recently Annie asked for Blossom A and Blossom B canvas photos for the Castle of Brecon Hotel in Wales. The canvas pictures were included as a nod to an oriental feel flattering the black lacquered furniture.

60 Minute Makeover has been lucky enough to have Annie on board since its start back in 2003. She’s worked as a designer and show presenter as well as part of the decorating team - where you might spot her lovely husband Mark who’s part of the team too and who runs a successful painting and decorating business.

Annie’s canvas printing requests, over the last six years, have varied widely compared to some designers who have a very particular style. The CanvasRus service she’s used on numerous makeovers is the Multiple Tiled Canvas. These prints to canvas make a great focal point to a room. The most successful tiled prints on canvas, that she's asked for in this last series, have been Dusk Rose 1 and Dusk Rose 2.

Photos to canvas have always been a favourite of Annie’s as she’s happy to supply client’s/contributor’s personal and professional photographs to be made into canvas print keepsakes.

You will be able to see more of Annie’s stylish interiors in a few weeks time when the second half of series 7, of 60mm, will start.

Andrea Maflin, the hugely successful interior designer, TV presenter, author and event speaker, has requested CanvasRus’ canvas prints and photos onto canvas on numerous occasions over the last 5 years.

CanvasRus was introduced to Andrea, back in Feb 2006, when she was working on ITV’s Homes and Property show (in association with The Evening Standard). For this project she chose sixteen prints on canvas from the ABSTRACT, FLORAL and WILD online galleries. These pieces of canvas wall art were beautifully styled into show homes. Photography of some of the canvas art prints in situ can be seen on Andrea’s MY WORK web page. Just click on the link and scroll down to the photos with butterflies.

Andrea has also used CanvasRus’ photos onto canvas service. She wanted a professional photographer’s print transformed into a stunning 102x102cm (bespoke sized) photo canvas. This was, of course, organised with the kind permission of the photographer Daniel Sims.

As well as running a successful interior design practice Andrea’s probably best know for her appearances on the BBC’s Home Front, Real Rooms and more recently ITV1’s This Morning. She has an infectious enthusiasm for all things to do with stylish interiors. She has also written five books covering subjects such as New Ways With Paint through to her Makeover Magic. CanvasRus were very flattered to be asked to supply the We Come In Peace canvas picture, from the KIDS online gallery, for her fifth book called Children’s Rooms.

Alison Cork, the respected property journalist and TV presenter, has used canvasRus’ digitally printed canvas art on a number of occasions both on TV and in her published articles.

CanvasRus first supplied canvas wall art to the Homes & Property TV show, presented by Alison, four years ago. CanvasRus’ good reputation preceded them as they were approached about donating a thousand pounds worth of canvas prints as the show’s competition prize. The winner was bowled over by the fact that they could order a selection of their own personal photos onto canvas prints as well as a number of canvasRus’ gallery images made up into prints on canvas.

More recently Alison Cork requested a number of canvas pictures for two of her 60 Minute Makeover designs. If you’re curious to know which prints to canvas she requested click on each of these names – Autumnal 1, The Forest, Autumn Colours, Lilac Sunset, X-Ray Leaf 2, Lilac Thistle 1 and Pastel Pansy.

Alison is well known as THE authority in all things stylish and affordably priced in the interior décor market. If you’d like to know the latest and very best bargains out there, recommended tradesmen and beautiful interior design ideas then look no further than her Homes & Property newspaper features each Wednesday, Homes and Bargains website and five interior and property books that she’s written.