Ideas for living with art

Guides, essays and references on choosing, hanging and understanding art prints.

Wall Art for High Ceilings: Scale and Placement

High ceilings tempt us to hang art too high. How to choose and place art for them: tall formats, two-tier arrangements and light from…

A TV is a large black rectangle that dominates a room. How to arrange wall art around it to blend the screen in, balance…

Scale, rising rhythm and safety: how to choose and hang staircase wall art across flights and landings so it reads as one calm journey…

A new print need not start from scratch. How to read what already hangs on your walls, find a bridge, and decide whether to…

We see thousands of images a day and remember almost none. Why we prefer fewer images, chosen with care, and a way of looking…

Balance in a good image is not stillness or symmetry but resolved tension. An essay on what composition teaches, and how to apply it…

There is no need to fill your walls at once. An essay on slow art collecting: waiting, choosing what moves you, and letting a…

Emitted versus reflected light, phone brightness, the light at home, size and paper: why an image changes from screen to print, and what to…

Gather objects, review your photos, look at nature: simple exercises to find your personal colour palette and use it when choosing art for your…

You are choosing something another person will see every day. How to get style, size and colour right when giving art, and when to…

Art with space around it looks better than art squeezed between furniture and frames. An essay on pause, hierarchy and walls you do not…