(Photo examples are included.) Choosing art for your home should feel easy, but it can be intimidating, especially because art styles and people’s tastes are widespread. Before choosing artwork, it is helpful to assign a function to each piece. This understanding will guide the process and ensure the artwork serves its intended purpose. Like a symphony or wonderful meal, variety in artwork size and media choice will always result in a wonderful collection.
Collaborating with an experienced interior designer can make your choices much easier. Filling walls with pleasing artwork is a big part of a designer’s services; a designer will glean a sense of your likes and dislikes and can make informed and experienced suggestions.
Whether you work independently with an artist or request help from an interior designer, remember the following helpful secrets before selecting artwork.
Secret No. 1
Understand the function of the art to help choose art for your home.
Choosing artwork is more straightforward when following a plan and checking boxes. Finishing a project with artwork representing each function will create an ideal balance of art.
Not every piece of art is meant to be the heart and soul of a room. When it meets a designer's vision, artwork has unique and special purposes.
Jade of Jade Brown Creates proudly provides artwork for Lilly Home + Design, one of London’s well-known and respected design teams.
Wall art falls into categories of functions:
As an oversized backdrop:
A large-scale artwork (or diptych or triptych) provides a necessary large field of colour.
A backdrop piece works well over a sofa, seating area, or behind a dining room table.
An intensely textured and scrubby (with a lack of focus) abstract can be just what a space needs to add coziness and promote conversation.
A high gloss abstract (or resin-coated artwork) shows off beautifully with the dimmed light of a dining room pendant.
As a highlighted or featured piece:
A featured artwork or a “hey, look at me” artwork can be displayed in a first impression spot like a foyer, over a fireplace, or any prominent wall.
A dimensional piece will highlight dramatic shadows when lit from above, either by a picture light or well-placed ceiling recessed lights.
It might highlight an aspect or theme of your interior design.
It adds further charisma to your overall design.
It might be large (over a fireplace) or smaller (in a foyer.)
As a personalized art piece:
A personalized piece might include an image of family or pets.
It could be an artwork expressing emotions around a homeowner’s passions or hobbies that gives guests a glimpse into their hosts’ personalities. For example, hockey, golfing, or sailing.
This can be a perfect opportunity for a collaboration with an artist. Personalized artwork would be completed in a style, colour, and size specific to the design vision.
A home office, a secondary wall, or a hallway is perfect for personalized artwork.
As an artwork that stimulates a response:
Art is at its finest when it facilitates provocation or invites reflection, scrutiny, distress, or happiness, feeding our brains’ love of engagement.
Whether it stirs discussion, helps bring about a meditative state, or entertains a viewer, this kind of artwork can naturally live in a great room, dining room, or even a dramatic place in a hallway or bedroom.
As a smaller adjunct artwork:
Guests will only briefly view a powder room art piece, but the quality of the art is the detail they will notice in that small space.
Skip the print and offer a small(ish) original piece of art in a powder room.
To leave an impression, you could display a new style of art or a flat wall-hanging canvas.
A smaller piece in a bathroom might reflect the mood of your design project, giving people a glimpse into your client’s personality.
Abstracts, either a well-framed piece or one with an added “special something,” are best for these small-sized artworks.
(Primary bathrooms are perfect for artwork that matches the drama of your design.)
As an artwork piece for a bedroom:
The bedroom is often the place for large wall art over the bed or on a main wall.
A guest bedroom can be a nice place for an edgy piece of artwork. You want your guests to enjoy the room so keep it pleasant.
A primary bedroom is the homeowner’s place of solace and rejuvenation. Soft landscapes and scrubby abstracts imbue any bedroom with a colour-harmonized calming mood.
Secret No. 2
Commission artwork from an artist who is also an interior design artist.
Artists with experience working with interior designers have a good sense of where your piece will fit well, and they can advise on colours that will suit the location and the room. Some artists have many ideas and provide art services in numerous styles and mediums. If you are considering renovating and getting new artwork, an interior designer will help you curate it.
It is advantageous to align yourself with a creatively versatile artist with design strengths and excellent communication skills to ensure the best outcome.
Secret No. 3
Provide inspirational photos of what you like and pictures of your room.
The artwork will be created more easily by the artist (and will be less costly for you) if you provide a few inspirational photos of artworks that you love for you and the artist to work with. The artist will provide a mock-up or sketch and their ideas for any highlights or sizes of the artwork.
An artist will ask a few questions:
About the colours you like.
Whether you want, for instance, an abstract or something that brings you closer to nature.
Whether you like texture.
What your budget for art is.
Secret No. 4
Successful art commissions rely on good communication.
Over-communicating is the best rule of thumb; even a tiny presumption can change things in a way that may affect the finished product. An artist will provide a price before they begin so a designer can budget for the work.
I am Jade Brown, an experienced artist who has successfully created art for many art lovers. Reach me on my CONTACT PAGE.
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