Our living room finally has a nicely balanced spread of art on its walls after we discovered a neat little picture called Stars.
In one corner of our living room, a door leads to the kitchen. The two walls that meet at that corner both have various pictures on them a little distance away from the door. The high ceiling leaves a space above the door of around 750mm (2' 6") high by 850mm (2' 10") wide. This space was crying out for a picture but as it was so high and an awkward size, we were at a loss what to do with it.
The other day as we entered one of our favourite local charity shops we glanced across and saw Stars. It wasn't very big, it didn't look very exciting and the chunky gold frame looked a bit out of scale with the picture.
On the way out we took a closer look. It was an original oil painting by Anne Jackson Shields. The picture was basically black with lots of tiny specks of colour to represent the stars. Vicky liked the chunky frame that had been very neatly assembled.
We weren't sure if it would work in the space we wanted to fill. A black picture in a brightly coloured living room? It didn't sound like a recipe for success. We stood in the shop for quite some time discussing whether or not to buy it. We even considered keeping the frame but swapping the picture for something more colourful. In the end we did buy it, thinking we could do something with it even if it didn't work in the living room.
Back home, Vince held Stars up above the door; the scale and proportions looked good; the bold frame didn't overpower the space; it didn't fight with the pictures on the other walls.
We nailed in a hook and hung the picture in its new home. After a bit of discussion about how good it looked, we realised that not only did it fill the space well, it also tied the two walls together. On one side, the gold frame matched a group of other pictures with gold frames, on the other, the blackness of the painting connected with the black frames of two large pictures and the black TV set.
After a few weeks with Stars in our living room, we are very pleased with how it works, integrating other displays that were completely separate before. Sometimes it is not always obvious what works until you try it.
Love Your Art,
Vicky and Vince
In one corner of our living room, a door leads to the kitchen. The two walls that meet at that corner both have various pictures on them a little distance away from the door. The high ceiling leaves a space above the door of around 750mm (2' 6") high by 850mm (2' 10") wide. This space was crying out for a picture but as it was so high and an awkward size, we were at a loss what to do with it.
The other day as we entered one of our favourite local charity shops we glanced across and saw Stars. It wasn't very big, it didn't look very exciting and the chunky gold frame looked a bit out of scale with the picture.
On the way out we took a closer look. It was an original oil painting by Anne Jackson Shields. The picture was basically black with lots of tiny specks of colour to represent the stars. Vicky liked the chunky frame that had been very neatly assembled.
We weren't sure if it would work in the space we wanted to fill. A black picture in a brightly coloured living room? It didn't sound like a recipe for success. We stood in the shop for quite some time discussing whether or not to buy it. We even considered keeping the frame but swapping the picture for something more colourful. In the end we did buy it, thinking we could do something with it even if it didn't work in the living room.
Back home, Vince held Stars up above the door; the scale and proportions looked good; the bold frame didn't overpower the space; it didn't fight with the pictures on the other walls.
We nailed in a hook and hung the picture in its new home. After a bit of discussion about how good it looked, we realised that not only did it fill the space well, it also tied the two walls together. On one side, the gold frame matched a group of other pictures with gold frames, on the other, the blackness of the painting connected with the black frames of two large pictures and the black TV set.
After a few weeks with Stars in our living room, we are very pleased with how it works, integrating other displays that were completely separate before. Sometimes it is not always obvious what works until you try it.
Love Your Art,
Vicky and Vince
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