ARTIST’S AIR quietly
removes impurities from between you and your artwork, where harmful substances
would otherwise collect and be inhaled. Clean air naturally replaces
it, leaving you with healthier air to breathe. Most impurities created
by artists are heavier than air and tend to drift downward or with air
currents.

ARTIST’S AIR is
portable and can be quickly set up to either side of your workspace.
This affordable system filters your studio air, rather than venting it
outside. That saves you heating and cooling expenses and conserves energy
resources.
ARTIST’S AIR collection
unit fits virtually any easel. However, the collection unit can be used
on a table, horizontally or vertically, for artists working in other
media.

Most studio artists
use toxic materials. Oil painters commonly work with harmful solvents,
including turpentine and odorless petroleum distillates. Many poisonous
substances have no odor. Pastel and ceramic artists generate potentially
harmful dusts, including heavy-metal particles. Acrylic and gouache painters
release small amounts of formaldehyde, ammonia, and gum binders into
their environment. Jewelry makers release cleaning solvent by-products
when soldering.
All of these, plus other dusts, chemicals, and
many bacteria and viruses are filtered from your environment by ARTIST’S AIR.
It incorporates the same filters used by many hospitals and other medical
facilities.
Harmful substances, if not eliminated, will
pollute the air not only in your studio, but also in any attached rooms
and the surrounding environment. ARTIST’S AIR is
an efficient and cost effective solution for a space up to 1200 square
feet.
ARTIST’S AIR is
constructed of durable steel with a flat black powder-coat finish. It uses
a four-phase filtering system.
1) The pre-filter stops larger particles
such as dust and lint from clogging the other filters.
2) The special Vocarb Carbon filter eliminates solvent vapors, gases, and odors. This filter has ten pounds (4.5 kg) of Vocarb activated carbon that traps gases and odors that pass over it and continues working for many months before needing to be replaced. It will absorb approximately 8 pints (4 liters) of solvent before it becomes less effective.
3) Two anti-microbial filters kill airborne
microbes that pass through them.
4) The true HEPA filter traps airborne particles.
These filters were developed by the Atomic Energy Commission. They can
capture 99.97% of particles as small as 0.3 microns. That is as small
as some bacteria and viruses.
Activated carbon has been treated with oxygen
to open up millions of tiny pores between the carbon atoms. There are
so many of these that one pound of activated carbon has a working surface
area of 60 to 150 acres.
Certain chemicals are attracted to activated carbon and then bond to it. The millions of pores in the activated carbon provide an enormous surface area to trap these chemicals. In addition, Vocarb is specially treated to trap volatile organic compounds, such as a painter's solvents.
ARTIST’S AIR is
an investment that will help you, and quite possibly your family and
pets, lead longer, healthier lives and avoid the distress and expenses
of allergies and other toxin-related health problems.
Don’t wait for symptoms to occur. Be pro-active
with your health.
If dusts are your only problem, ARTIST’S AIR is
available without a carbon filter.
We offer a one-year warranty and a generous return
policy.
• ARTIST’S AIR will
collect and filter out most impurities as they are released from an average
or small-sized painting. However, even under ideal conditions nothing
collects and filters 100 percent of the impurities as they are created.
The system will continue to collect and filter any vapors and dust that
escape into the studio. Processing up to 350 cubic feet per minute, it
can handle a space of approximately 1200 square feet. We recommend that
artists leave the fan on low when not working to continually clean their
studio air.
• There are three fan speeds. The highest produces about as much sound
as a modern window fan.
• If more than one person is painting
in a studio, each painter should have an ARTIST’S AIR at
their easel. The system is not designed to handle the impurities produced
by more than one painter at a time. |