I’ve spent years building pieces for private homes, galleries, and designers, and I’ve learned something simple: art doesn’t start with color or scale. It starts with a feeling. A room has its own energy — its own rhythm — and the right piece of art doesn’t interrupt that. It settles into it. It deepens it.People often ask me how to choose original artwork for a luxury space. I don’t think of myself as an interior designer, but I’ve worked closely with enough of them to understand what makes a piece feel at home. These thoughts come from the studio, from working with my hands, and from paying attention to the way art lives with people once it leaves my workspace.This isn’t a rulebook — just what I’ve seen, what I’ve learned, and what I’ve come to believe.
I’ve spent years building pieces for private homes, galleries, and designers, and I’ve learned something simple: art doesn’t start with color or scale. It starts with a feeling. A room has its own energy — its own rhythm — and the right piece of art doesn’t interrupt that. It settles into it. It deepens it.
People often ask me how to choose original artwork for a luxury space. I don’t think of myself as an interior designer, but I’ve worked closely with enough of them to understand what makes a piece feel at home. These thoughts come from the studio, from working with my hands, and from paying attention to the way art lives with people once it leaves my workspace.
This isn’t a rulebook — just what I’ve seen, what I’ve learned, and what I’ve come to believe.
Before anything else, I ask clients one question:
“How do you want the room to feel when you walk into it?”
Calm. Grounded. Energizing. Soft. Open.
The feeling usually comes before the colors or the textures. Luxury interiors aren’t about decoration — they’re about intention. When you begin with the emotional tone, everything else becomes clearer.
Some rooms want quiet work. Some want bold, sculptural presence. Some just want something honest that blends with natural light. When the feeling is right, the art tends to find its place.
One of the biggest shifts I’ve seen is that people are no longer afraid of large-scale pieces. A big room or an open floor plan often needs a work that can hold its own — not by shouting, but by grounding the space.
A single large painting or sculpture can do more than a cluster of smaller pieces. It brings clarity and balance. It also allows texture to breathe, which matters a lot in my work, where light moves across the surface throughout the day.
When in doubt, go slightly bigger than you think. Art has a way of shrinking once it’s on the wall.
Texture is where emotion lives.
I work with resin, wood, foam, paint — materials that already carry history before they reach me. When I carve or layer them, I’m trying to give that history a new shape.
In luxury interiors, texture adds depth where you might not expect it:
You don’t have to know why a certain texture pulls you in. What matters is that it does.
People sometimes try to match artwork to furniture the way you’d match paint to trim. I don’t think art works that way. Art doesn’t have to match; it has to belong.
Here are a few ways I think about color in interior spaces:
Complementary tones:
A piece that picks up small colors already in the room creates subtle harmony.
Contrasting palette:
A deep indigo or muted rust can anchor a quiet space without overpowering it.
Soft, neutral layers:
Some of my paintings use soft, warm tones that blend into a room — not to hide, but to bring calm.
Color is a tool, not a rule. Light changes color every hour of the day anyway. Let the room tell you what it needs.
Light is one of the biggest influences on how a piece will live in a room. I learned that long before I ever worked in a studio — from fishing before sunrise, from roofing in the heat, from watching how different materials respond to the day.
Some works soften in morning light.
Some sharpen in the afternoon.
Some feel almost reflective at night.
If you’re choosing art for a room with strong natural light, think about how the surface — matte, textured, carved, resin — will respond. A good piece doesn’t just hang on a wall. It interacts with the environment.
Luxury interiors are full of beautiful things, but the pieces that stay with us are the ones that make us pause — even for a moment — before we try to define them.
Original artwork doesn’t need a story on the wall beside it. The story should live in the work. When a piece carries emotion, you feel it before you think about it.
When you’re choosing a piece, trust that first pull. It usually tells you the truth.
Sometimes a room needs something specific. A certain size. A certain texture. A certain balance or movement. That’s when a commission makes sense.
A bespoke piece allows us to work together — your space, your light, your intention, combined with my materials, my process, and my way of seeing.
It’s not about control. It’s a collaboration.
The material leads; I listen.
And the result is something that couldn’t exist anywhere else.
Choosing original artwork for a luxury interior is less about rules and more about awareness — of the room, of the light, of the feeling you want to create.
When you allow yourself to respond to art with honesty instead of obligation, the right pieces tend to reveal themselves. They transform the space the same way they transformed in the studio: slowly, patiently, layer by layer.
That’s the beauty of original art.
It’s built by hand, and it continues to evolve long after it leaves the studio.
I’d be happy to talk about what might work for your home, or create something built specifically for it.
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