Colour
Art by the colour you already have.
Most people start from a colour in the room rather than from a style. These pages take each one seriously — which shade you actually mean, what it sits beside, and the prints that are in it.
Green
Green is the most-searched colour for art in Australia and the least specific. Sage and forest are barely the…
Sage green
Sage is one green among several — the grey-green, low-saturation one. It is also the one that behaves…
Terracotta
Terracotta went from nowhere to everywhere in about three years, which is exactly why it now needs handling…
Neutral
The problem with neutral art is that most of it is genuinely boring, and the reason is almost always tonal…
Black and white
It is the one choice that goes with every room in the country, which is exactly why so much of it is…
Blue
Blue is the most requested colour in Australian interiors after neutrals, and the one that changes most…
Beige
Most Australian walls are a warm off-white, which means beige art is starting from roughly the same colour as…
Burgundy
Bright red is difficult in a room. Burgundy is not, and the difference is almost entirely about how dark it…
Pink
Pink has a reputation problem that comes almost entirely from one narrow part of the range. Move a few steps…
White
This is the one request that can fail completely. A pale print on a pale wall can be invisible from the…
Colourful
The difference between a room that looks joyful and one that looks cluttered is almost never the number of…
Brown
Brown came back because of timber, leather and clay — not because of brown itself. Get that distinction…
Gold
Printed gold is not gold. It is a flat yellow-brown that only looks metallic under the exact light the…
Red
Red is the colour most often bought on impulse and taken down within a year. Almost always because it was the…
Earthy
“Earthy” gets used for anything beige. It means something narrower and more useful than that:…
Not sure which colour you have
Photograph the room and the matcher will tell you, to the hex value.