lighting oil painting and artwork

[WILLRUK]

Please can anyone help me out with this one?

Call from owners of a posh house with a room full of expensive oil paintings and sculptures wanting to change the lighting in the room from 2x MR16 square downlights to something more suitable to show off the art. The main painting is 4' high x 10' wide across one wall. GU10's or similar will be too hot and risk damaging the painting. So I'm thinking of LED's or similar. Probably need 6 or so in total (Just to light the painting) My concern is the lack of light these might provide - The ones I've fitted previously have all been disappointing.

Can anyone suggests what fitting to use. Anyone know of any light commercial one which could fit the bill?

Thanks
Will.

 

[bugsy]

Use fittings with seperate led drivers, and cree led lamps, make sure you select the correct colour temp. lamp if its solely to illuminate the paintings I would suggest white 4oook.
If your going to select L.V. T/H make sure they have u/v mask

 

[spider]

M U S E U M & G A L L E R Y L I G H T I N G

On sell the lighting, if its a posh house, just imagine the dinner table conversation when they say they have the same lighting that is used for the crown jewles, priceless lol

 

[pennywise]

If your feeling brave you could always put a clock power point round the back of the paintings and have frame mounted lights looks really good, we had the same kind of situation you have big private house but as dark as the dark hole of Calcutta . I have to admit it was rather scary drilling the frame especially as we realized halfway through that mine and my m8s public liable probably wouldn't cover one of the paintings, we ended up getting the customer to move the painting around the room for us, luck really he almost dropped the bloody thing it turned out it was quite an important Picasso . Good luck on the install sounds like money no object. This company are pretty good they even have a custom service for larger paintings and it's LED.



Hogarth Fine Art Picture Lights