Paintings Gracing Homes
From time to time, we'll expand this page with new images of a purchased paintings hanging in their new homes.
This painting, Goat in Blue, by Hannah Sessions, measures 16 x 12 in. Its frame measures 22.5 x 18.5 in.
In early April, a client saw it in our pop-up gallery and fell prey to its charms.
Without a definite idea of where she'd hang it, she took it home, on approval,
to her elegant condo in Boston's North End.
Here's what she invested:
an openness to being seized by the unexpected;
her imagination;
10 minutes in the gallery;
the strength to depart from her decorator's advice
("Lovely, but I think you should pair it with another of the same size.");
a growing self-assurance in her own taste;
a gut-level conviction in what belongs where;
exactly $850.
And here's what she texted me that same evening, "I'm keeping it.
Every time I walk into my kitchen, it makes me happy. I love the goat.
I love the painting. I love especially what it has done for my kitchen.
Please tell Hannah how thrilled I am."
It's that simple. It can be that wonderful. Imagine your own kitchen,
or your hallway, or your foyer, or any spot in your home or office that
could benefit from serendipity, from inspiration, from a painting that grips you,
from an injection of personality.
In early April, a client saw it in our pop-up gallery and fell prey to its charms.
Without a definite idea of where she'd hang it, she took it home, on approval,
to her elegant condo in Boston's North End.
Here's what she invested:
an openness to being seized by the unexpected;
her imagination;
10 minutes in the gallery;
the strength to depart from her decorator's advice
("Lovely, but I think you should pair it with another of the same size.");
a growing self-assurance in her own taste;
a gut-level conviction in what belongs where;
exactly $850.
And here's what she texted me that same evening, "I'm keeping it.
Every time I walk into my kitchen, it makes me happy. I love the goat.
I love the painting. I love especially what it has done for my kitchen.
Please tell Hannah how thrilled I am."
It's that simple. It can be that wonderful. Imagine your own kitchen,
or your hallway, or your foyer, or any spot in your home or office that
could benefit from serendipity, from inspiration, from a painting that grips you,
from an injection of personality.
Some seven or eight years ago, maybe a little more, a client from Boxford asked me to keep
my eyes open for an oil painting of birch trees. She and her husband were looking for a
signature piece to hang on a "high wall above the landing of our main staircase."
Though I quizzed her on the size and orientation (horizontal or vertical) that she had in mind,
and her comfort zone on price, she said, in so many words, "Why don't you send me images
as you find them, and I'll give you feedback. I don't have those specific guidelines in my head
right now, but I'm sure when I see the one, I'll know it."
my eyes open for an oil painting of birch trees. She and her husband were looking for a
signature piece to hang on a "high wall above the landing of our main staircase."
Though I quizzed her on the size and orientation (horizontal or vertical) that she had in mind,
and her comfort zone on price, she said, in so many words, "Why don't you send me images
as you find them, and I'll give you feedback. I don't have those specific guidelines in my head
right now, but I'm sure when I see the one, I'll know it."