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Founders

A letter from our founders.

Chloë Ryan, co-founder
Kyle, co-founder

You make rooms come alive. The textiles, the stone, the light, the chair in the corner. By the time someone walks in, the space has its own voice, and it has your fingerprints all over it.

Art should be part of that voice. Too often, it isn’t. The choices narrow to whatever’s available, the budget tightens, and the project ends up with art that’s close enough. Not what your room deserves.

We started Acrylic six years ago because the art industry had stopped working. Not for artists, not for the rooms that need art, not for anyone outside a very small circle. Original work has become a luxury good: gated by galleries, hoarded by collectors, priced for scarcity over quality. Most working artists can’t make a living from their craft. Most spaces, even beautiful ones, end up with whatever’s available rather than what they actually want. The result is a small art world and a lot of compromise.

So we built a studio to widen the gate. The designers whose taste turns architecture into atmosphere should be able to brief artwork the same way they brief everything else. Send us the room, the palette, the mood, the budget. We match it to one of our artists, and you get real paint on real canvas, in days.

We’re trying to revive something the industry has slowly forgotten: that the rooms where people gather (homes, hotels, public spaces) deserve art with weight and originality. That should be the default, not the privilege of a few collections.

We earn only when the art lands. The risk is ours. By the time the room opens, the art will feel like it was always meant to be there.

Your vision is the work. Acrylic is in service of it. We’d love to make something with you.

With love from our studio in Montreal,

Kyle's signature
Chloë's signature

Chloë & Kyle
Co-founders, Acrylic

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