Copyright
I keep the copyright in the work. Buying a picture is not buying the right to reproduce it.
Buying a print
A print is an object. It is yours: hang it, frame it, move it, sell it on, leave it to somebody.
The image on it stays mine. Buying a print does not give you the right to reproduce it — no reprints, no scans, no prints of the scan, no putting it on a product, no using it in an advertisement, and no feeding it to a model as training data.
Photographing your own wall and posting it is fine, and welcome. A credit is kind.
Buying an original
The same line holds, and it surprises people, so it is worth saying plainly: buying the painting transfers the painting. It does not transfer the copyright.
That means I may keep photographing it, showing it in a portfolio, and printing it, and you may not reproduce it commercially without asking. If you want the reproduction rights as well, that is a separate conversation and a separate agreement — ask, and it can be written down.
The images on this site
Every photograph of a work here is mine, and so is the way the site is written and laid out. Please do not scrape the catalogue, hotlink the images, or republish them as a set.
No image on this site may be used to train a machine-learning model.
Licensing
If you want to use an image for something — a book cover, a record sleeve, a wall in a hotel, a film — write and say what it is for, where it would appear, how big, and for how long. Most requests are straightforward and the answer is usually yes.
Non-commercial and educational use is often free. Commercial use is quoted case by case.
Press
Writing about the work is welcome and does not need permission. Reproducing an image alongside a review or an article is fine, at a sensible size, with the title, year and my name beside it.
Write if you want a high-resolution file; it is a better picture than anything you can pull off the page.
The stand-in images
While the catalogue is being photographed, some works are represented by public-domain paintings from museum open-access collections. Those are marked as stand-ins on their own pages, they are not my work, and their licence is the museum’s rather than mine. They will be replaced.
If you think something here is yours
Write, say which page and what the work is, and I will take it down while we sort it out. That is quicker than anything more formal, and it has the advantage of actually working.
Questions about this page
Write to hello@sunurai.com and say which page you mean. It reaches a person, not a queue.