Allayn Stevens Wall Art

Allayn Stevens Wall Art

Who Contemporary Abstract Painting Is For This is for people who want a wall to hold colour and movement without holding a subject. If you enjoy looking at something that never resolves into a thing, and you are not going to spend six months wondering what it was meant to be, this work will keep you. If you want a picture you can explain to a visitor in one sentence, it will not, and there is no shame in knowing that about yourself before you spend the money. It also suits anyone furnishing a room already busy with pattern. Abstract work sits over a patterned rug or a boldly upholstered chair better than a landscape does, because it is not competing for the role of window. Renters get value from it too, since it carries across flats in a way that a picture keyed to one particular room does not. The work itself runs to layered fields, gestural marks, and passages where paint has been scraped back to show what was underneath. Some pieces are quiet and tonal. Others throw a single loud gesture across a muted ground, and those are the ones that need the most bare wall around them. Orientation is worth settling early. Many abstract compositions work either way up, and the seller has picked one. If you hang it the other way and prefer it, that is allowed, but decide before you drill, because a fixing rarely lands in the same place twice. A practical caveat: photograph the piece on your phone once it is up, then look at the photo rather than the wall. Imbalance that your eye forgives in the room is obvious in a small image, and nine times out of ten it means the piece is hanging two or three centimetres off level.