How to showcase your Art Collections
As summer is closing in I have been thinking about what to share on my blog. Today is a short one about displaying collections.
Showcasing collections can be a challenge. If you spread them throughout your home, they can lose their impact but can they be too much of a good thing? I have been thinking about the best way to display collections and have come up with a few tips.
Using the whole collection in one place has far more graphic impact than putting a few pieces around the whole house. dividing up the pieces and spreading them around the house loses the impact a whole collection can have and can get lost. It is by placing them all together that makes a collection work so well. The like objects read off one another and make it far more interesting and a real conversation piece.
Making sure you have negative space around your collections is so much more impactful. Image: Blinds.com
Create a boundary around the collection. This could mean putting the items in a bookcase, or on a shelf, in a glass box or in a bowl. It could even mean laying out the objects on a side table but they must then have some negative space around them to define it as a collection. The negative space around collections prevents it looking cluttered.
A great collection of treasured items - some from travels and some family heirlooms. Image: Lee Haddock
If you have a collection of items that need to stand up, make sure you create a balance with these items. You want the eye to flow around the collection as one and not start and stop as you “see” the collection.
And, of course, your collections should tell your story. They should be from your travels or from family and/or friends but they should tell a bit about who you are.
A grouping of globes, such fun!. Image: Inspired by this
Now that you have a few tips, get back out there and enjoy the rest of the summer! We know these days don’t last forever. There will be plenty of time to nest and rearrange our interiors once Fall hits.
In the meantime, do you have a favourite collection you’d like to share with me? Send me a picture!