The short version. Buy canvas for a wall that catches light, and for a picture that was painted rather than drawn. If the artwork is fine linework on a flat ground, canvas will cost you the thing that makes it good.
The glazing argument, which is the real one
A framed print has plexiglass in front of it, and anything in front of a picture reflects. On a wall opposite a window, or facing a television, that reflection competes with the artwork all day, and it is worst on the dark pictures because there is nothing bright in them to overpower it. A canvas has no glazing at all. There's nothing between you and the surface, so the picture stays visible from every angle and in every light.
That is the whole case, and it is enough on its own. Everything else about canvas is preference.
The weave argument, which cuts both ways
Canvas has a texture, and the ink sits into it. Under a painted picture that reads as brushwork and makes the artwork feel like an object rather than a reproduction. Under a fine drawing it eats the line: hairline linework crossing a weave loses its edge, and the precision that was the entire point goes soft. That isn't a trade worth making.
So the blueprints and the single-line set should stay on paper. The six above are the ones that gain.
The six
The Workshop and The Barn Find are the strongest pair on canvas. Both are built out of warm light falling across texture, dust and faded chrome, and a weave under that is doing the same job the painting is.
Riviera Run and Endurance are painterly rather than graphic, one warm and one dark, and both read as paintings on canvas in a way they do not on flat paper.
Neon Rain and Kanjo Glow are here for the glazing reason more than the weave one. They are the two darkest things in the night drive set, which makes them the two that suffer most behind plexiglass, and canvas solves that outright.
What you are actually buying
The canvas is stretched over a two-centimetre FSC-certified wooden frame and arrives ready to hang, at 30 by 40, 40 by 50, 50 by 70 and 60 by 80 centimetres. The image continues around the edges rather than stopping at the face, so it reads as an object from the side as well as the front.
If you want the canvas finished with a surround, framed canvas puts it inside a floating wooden frame in black, dark wood or natural wood at three of those sizes. The formats page sets out the whole range, and the size guide deals with which dimension a wall wants. Note that canvas sizes are metric and do not line up with the A-sizes, so a canvas will not hang neatly beside an A2 poster.
