10 Ways To Transform a Room With A Single Painting!
I love reading your comments – it adds so much to the post and more often than not someone will point out something I haven’t noticed and I’ll look a the home tour from a new perspective. Yesterday, for example, someone pointed out that there was no art on the walls – and it was in no means meant as a negative – more an observation that a home without art can also be interesting. So today, I thought I would go to the opposite extreme and take a look at how a single painting can transform a space. When I was writing my first book, Modern Pastoral, the photographer James Gardiner and I captured a beautiful home in the Hudson Valley designed by Jersey Ice-cream Company. One of the things I noticed about the work of Tara Mangini & Percy Bright is how they apply art (mainly portraits, but also landscapes and still life) to bring the look together. Here are ten fine examples:
I found this fascinating, how about you?
Did you have a favourite?
It has totally spurred me on to look out for more original art for my walls. These are often good sources:
Do you have any other suggestions on where to source original portrait paintings? Perhaps some wonderful, modern artists?
I’m going to need to be careful though – there was a painting in my childhood home of my great, great, great grandfather who was an Admiral. My Mother used to have to cover it up with a sheet at night because my sisters and I were so afraid of it! There was something about the way his eyes followed you around the room. Did you have any paintings like that in your home?
I love reading your comments – it adds so much to the post and more often than not someone will point out something I haven’t noticed and I’ll look a the home tour from a new perspective. Yesterday, for example, someone pointed out that there was no art on the walls – and it was in no means meant as a negative – more an observation that a home without art can also be interesting. So today, I thought I would go to the opposite extreme and take a look at how a single painting can transform a space. When I was writing my first book, Modern Pastoral, the photographer James Gardiner and I captured a beautiful home in the Hudson Valley designed by Jersey Ice-cream Company. One of the things I noticed about the work of Tara Mangini & Percy Bright is how they apply art (mainly portraits, but also landscapes and still life) to bring the look together. Here are ten fine examples:
I found this fascinating, how about you?
Did you have a favourite?
It has totally spurred me on to look out for more original art for my walls. These are often good sources:
Do you have any other suggestions on where to source original portrait paintings? Perhaps some wonderful, modern artists?
I’m going to need to be careful though – there was a painting in my childhood home of my great, great, great grandfather who was an Admiral. My Mother used to have to cover it up with a sheet at night because my sisters and I were so afraid of it! There was something about the way his eyes followed you around the room. Did you have any paintings like that in your home?