What we do...

R. K. Burt and Company Ltd. is a leading London based wholesale paper supplier and distributor and was the first to introduce and supply fine art papers in bulk to the UK.

Our initial range included the now familiar mill names such as Arches, Fabriano, Hahnemühle, Lana and Rives.
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Gallery

The RKB Gallery was created in November 1999 in our Grade Two listed Union Street site.  Its nearly 1000 square feet of exhibition space in Southwark, a fast changing area of London which has seen many recent developments. Read more...

News & New Products

September 2011

Hahnemühle Sketch Diary. These spiral bound notebook have blank pages on the right hand side for your drawings and images, whilst the left hand page is lined so you can record your own notes about your thoughts and observations.

 

Canson Art Boards introduced. The world’s finest art papers, now on art board, are reviewed in The Artist October 2011 issue by Glyn Macey:

“These boards are pretty unique in that they have fabulous quality surfaces with the strength of a mount board”

 

August 2011

Hahnemühle introduce Rice Paper on rolls for inkjet. This 100gsm Laid paper is suitable for fine art reproductions of asian ink paintings (Sumi-e).

March 2011

This year sees the introduction of a new range of Hahnemühle Fine Art products such as the Britannia watercolour blocks...

... along with others in the range such as Leonardo, Cornwall and Andalucia. In addition, we have added a new range of 30 pastel colours known as Lanacolours in A4 and 50x65cm.

Canson also introduce an new Infinity product, Photoart HD Canvas, which exhibits one of the brightest white shade canvas surfaces on the market.

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