Floral Wall Art
Floral Wall Art: Which Piece Goes Where
Floral wall art works differently depending on the wall it’s going on. A big, bold bouquet needs a room that can hold it. A smaller study earns its place somewhere quieter, where you want color without being told to look at it. Here’s how I’d place a handful of pieces I have right now, based on scale and mood more than anything else.
Most of what I hear from people who buy a piece is that they want to see it often, a lot of color in a beige world, somewhere it gets looked at every day.
Roses show up more than anything else I paint. When I first started, I was drawn to them without really knowing why, almost on autopilot. The research into the meaning came after, the rose’s high-frequency explanation I’ve written about separately. Camellias and other rose-like flowers show up just as often. I don’t paint any of them exactly true to life. See what you want to see.
Small Floral Art Fills a Bigger Wall Than You Think
Most of what I paint is small to medium, and framing changes the math. An 11×14 painting on paper with a mat goes into a 16×20 frame. Hang 3 of those in a row with 3 inches between them and the grouping is about 54 inches wide, enough to fill the wall over an 84-inch sofa. 2 of them side by side come to about 35 inches, a good width over a queen bed.
If you are planning a specific spot, these guides walk through size and height for each one:
- Art over a couch: size, height and groupings for the living room.
- Art above the bed: pairs and rows sized to the headboard.
- How to decorate a large wall: grids and salon groupings of small originals.
- Stairway wall decor ideas: art that climbs with the steps.
- Entryway and hallway art: small pieces for the walls you pass every day.
- How high to hang pictures: the eye-level rule and the nail math.
For a Wall That Can Hold a Statement
These 2 are large, 24 inches and up, and both have enough energy that they need real distance to be seen properly. An entryway, a stairwell landing, behind a dining table, anywhere you walk past it more than you sit and stare at it.
Loosen Up
A bouquet with paint dripping down the canvas, left in on purpose. This one wants a room where a little mess reads as energy.
Rose Canopy
No single focal point, roses cover the whole canvas edge to edge. This one reads like wallpaper, which makes it good for a spot where you want the roses to wrap around you.
For a Quieter Corner
Rose Color Study 5
A single bouquet, painted on paper instead of canvas, with the matte texture still visible in the color. At 9×12 this sits well somewhere you pass by slowly, a hallway, a bedroom reading corner, beside a mirror. It rewards a second look.
Available here.
For a Small Wall or a Shelf
December Study 1
At 6×8 inches, it’s small enough to lean on a shelf instead of hanging it, which is how I’d use this one. A powder room, a desk, a narrow bit of wall next to a doorframe that a bigger piece would never fit. A lot of women tell me theirs ends up in an office, somewhere they’ll see it every day.
This one has found its home, and Studio Steals is where I keep small studies like it.
For a Gallery Wall or a Kitchen Nook
Paper Trail 5
More flowers than any other piece here, cream dahlias, hot pink roses, a few bright orange blooms mixed in, all on paper. Medium-sized pieces like this one are the easiest to group (my gallery wall guide has layouts), 2 or 3 together over a breakfast table or alongside other art, since it already has enough going on to hold its own next to something else.
More of the full collection, these and everything else, lives here, and Studio Steals is the place to start if you’re curious but not ready to commit to a full piece yet.