The Living Room Edit

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Artist: Hannah Ivory Baker

Living rooms are where life gathers. They hold conversation, quiet evenings, celebrations and the small daily routines that shape home life. More than any other space, the living room reflects how we want a home to feel, and the art placed here often becomes the visual centre around which the room settles.

The Living Room Edit brings together paintings chosen for their presence and atmosphere, works capable of holding space without overwhelming it. These are paintings that anchor a room, creating focus and cohesion while still remaining comfortable to live with over time. Whether calm and atmospheric or layered with colour and movement, each work has been selected for its ability to shape mood while allowing the room to remain welcoming and relaxed.

In living spaces, art is seen throughout the day, in changing light and across different moments, from busy afternoons to quiet evenings. Paintings here become familiar companions, noticed in passing, returned to during conversation, and gradually absorbed into the everyday experience of home. The intention is not simply to decorate a wall, but to create atmosphere and depth within the room itself.

Artist: Hannah Ivory Baker

The twelve paintings brought together in this edit have been selected for their ability to hold a living space with confidence while still remaining easy to live alongside. Each work carries a sense of openness and movement, allowing colour and composition to bring energy and personality into the room without dominating it. Tonal layering and subtle shifts in colour allow the paintings to respond to changing light, revealing different moods throughout the day.

Across the selection there is a shared balance between calm and expression, drawing from landscape influences, coastal references and more abstract explorations of land and atmosphere. Together these works demonstrate how art in a living room becomes part of daily life, shaping the feeling of the space and gradually becoming inseparable from the memory and rhythm of the home itself.

Larger works often suit living rooms particularly well, anchoring seating areas or defining open plan spaces, while smaller works can soften quieter corners or create moments of discovery throughout the room. In each case, art becomes part of how the space is experienced rather than simply something placed within it.

Paintings in This Edit

Curator’s Notes

When choosing art for a living room, consider how the painting will sit within the wider space rather than focusing solely on the wall itself. Works often function best when they anchor seating areas or create cohesion within open plan layouts, bringing warmth and balance to the room.

Paintings that either echo tones already present or introduce gentle contrast tend to settle most naturally, adding personality without disrupting comfort. Over time these works become part of the everyday atmosphere of the home, present during gatherings, quiet evenings and everything in between, quietly shaping how the room feels to live in.

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