Original art doesn't have to mean a major investment. A guide to starting a collection with small-format works, collages, and prints, with honest advice on what to look for and why size doesn't determine significance.
People ask me often which of my paintings would work best in their living room. It's one of my favorite questions, because it's never really about the painting alone. It's about how a work of art changes the feeling of a room, and what you want to feel when you walk in.
The question I get asked most often isn’t about color or style — it’s about size. Here’s how I think about scale, and what I tell collectors who aren’t sure where to start.
As an artist whose work has been exhibited in museums and represented by respected galleries, I’ve seen how a painting can transform a space, spark conversation, and even become an investment. First-time collectors often wonder whether a piece will “fit” their home or lifestyle, but the truth is: trust your instincts.
A complete guide to choosing abstract art for your living room, covering scale, color, mood, placement, and the case for original paintings over prints.
Nine years later, Shilo Ratner reflects on her fall 2017 artist residency at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art (ECOCA) in New Haven — three months that shaped the geometric abstract work she creates today.
Most people think geometric abstraction is about perfection, clean lines, balanced forms, controlled color. Walk past a geometric painting and it can look predetermined, resolved before the first mark. That reading misses the point.
Meeting Fields didn't feel like encountering a distant figure from art history. It felt grounded, human. He wasn't performing the role of "artist." He was simply someone who had spent a lifetime looking, really looking, at color, and following it as far as it could go.
This geometric abstract landscape painting does not ask you to see a specific place. It asks you to feel the logic of one. For a broader look at how this work responds to a changing climate, read What Does Landscape Mean in a Changing Climate?
Experience the coast in a new way with New Haven artist Shilo Ratner. Her geometric abstract paintings, collages, and limited-edition prints distill the shoreline into form, color, and movement, each framed and ready to hang.
I've been studying the work of Raimonds Staprans for years. His paintings are impossible to ignore, saturated, structured, and alive with a tension that keeps you looking.
Explore the quiet luxury of slowing down. As both artist and collector, I share how abstract landscape art creates visual pauses that invite presence, breath, and mindful living.