Become a Pro at Mixing Art on Gallery Walls

Gallery walls are a great way to display all of the amazing works you’ve collected over the years. I’ve also pulled together some wicked imagery from Freedom (above) and Sheridan (all below) to help you understand how mixing art on gallery walls follows a bit of a formula.

Hopefully by the end of this post you can put all of your artworks side-by-side and confidently pinpoint which pieces aren’t working

It might sound naff, but locking in the mood really is the best place to start, because it helps you develop the right colour palette and inturn put the right pieces of art together. There is both floral photography and watercolour art together, but they both work because they evoke the same feeling. This single piece connects the floral photography on the left to the watercolour striped art on the right of the wall.

When it comes to mixing art on walls, you can combine different colours and styles together. It’s a little tricker to do, and I wouldn’t recommend placing more than two moods together on a small wall, or it’ll become haphazard.

The image above features one piece of art that I would take out off this cluster to make the wall work. We have three nature illustrations on this wall which make up the first mood (the tree on the left, the feathers up top, and the blue and black leaf on the right).

The moods, colours and patterns and one thing, but the frames you put the art in can make or break the gallery wall. The images in this post give you a good idea of how to successfully lay different sizes out.

Hopefully this post has given you some food for thought when it comes to mixing art on walls. Why not have a look at the image above and start to analyse what styles of art would and wouldn’t work here.

It’s a good exercise and it should help you start to figure out what you can and can’t mix on your on walls at home.