How Art Adds Colour to Your Home

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A home rarely comes together all at once. It grows slowly through objects collected over time, colours that feel comforting, and pieces that hold meaning. For me, art is often the element that brings everything into focus. It adds warmth, personality, and a sense that a space truly belongs to the people living in it.

Art doesn’t just fill a wall. It changes how a room feels.

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More Than Decoration

When I think about choosing art for a home, it’s never really about matching colours. It’s about connection. The pieces we live with every day quietly shape our environment. A simple line drawing can bring calm to a busy space. A bold floral print can soften a room or bring energy where it’s needed.

My work naturally moves between these two spaces. Some pieces are minimal, simple lines, rhythm, and negative space, influenced by Scandinavian design and its love of calm, light, and restraint. These works leave space for the viewer to bring their own meaning.

Others are more playful and expressive, filled with blooming florals, deep greens, and warm pinks. I like the balance between the two, simplicity alongside expression, because homes, like people, hold both.

Art That Reflects Real Life

I’ve always been drawn to homes that feel lived in rather than perfectly styled. Scandinavian interiors often embrace this idea beautifully: light, simplicity, natural materials, and space to breathe. Art becomes part of that atmosphere rather than something separate from it.

Themes of motherhood, female empowerment, and emotional honesty run throughout my work. The women in my illustrations are intentionally drawn with darker skin tones, reflecting beauty that is still underrepresented in art. Not as a statement, but as something natural and visible, part of everyday life and everyday homes.

When people tell me they see themselves, or someone they love, in a piece, that’s when art feels most meaningful.

Seeing Art in Real Homes

One of my favourite things is seeing my work in other people’s spaces. A print above a child’s bed. A quiet line drawing in a hallway. A floral piece warming up a neutral living room.

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Seeing art in real homes shows how it evolves with a space. It doesn’t need to be perfectly styled. Often it’s the relaxed placements, leaning on shelves, layered with books, surrounded by plants, that feel the most personal.

A Gentle Guide to Choosing Art for Your Home

If you’re not sure where to start, I always suggest thinking less like a decorator and more like a storyteller:

• Start with feeling, not colour. Choose pieces that make you pause.

• Mix calm with expressive. A minimal line piece next to something floral creates balance.

• Let art anchor a room. One piece can quietly set the tone for a whole space.

• Choose work that reflects real people and experiences. Representation adds depth and meaning.

• Give it time. Art settles into a home slowly.

Living With Art

The homes I love most aren’t the most finished ones. They’re the ones that feel personal, where objects have stories and art feels like it belongs.

Art adds colour not only through palette, but through emotion. Through quiet moments, strength, softness, and recognition. Whether it’s a simple line drawing or something filled with bloom and movement, art has a way of making a space feel complete.

And for me, that’s always been the purpose of making it in the first place, to bring a little more warmth, colour, and feeling into everyday life.