ART FOR INTERIOR DESIGNERS

Creating theme and relevance throughout your design

Working with you:  At Tailored Artworks our artworks aren't about us, they're about the client. We are committed to listening to your needs.  As a designer, you are free to design your own artwork and have us create it for you, or, we can do the lot.  Artworks can be singular or multiple commissions, corporate or residential and personalised with a theme throughout.

We can match your colours from paint sprays and interpret Resene, Porters or Dulux, Pantone, RGB or CMYK colour formulas and of course textile samples etc into our own paint codes.  Long distance commissions are not an issue given digital communications. Also, 'Our Unique Creative Process'  allows you have ample opportunity to ensure you and your client are completely satisfied with the end result.  Finally, our artworks are professionally packaged and couriered to your destination.

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The Picasso House - 'The Player's Triptych'

Client Brief - Aaron requested we design and install artworks in the Picasso style that would give him that 'Wow' factor ... and that, was his brief. His 4 story home overlooking the Brisbane river featured a natural theme with a modern edge but, did need 'Wow'. Aaron also requested the services of an Interior Designer to apply decor changes throughout.

Our Strategy - Sharron commissioned Interior Designer Lisa Colburn from If Design, who specialises in natural decors, to work with her on Aaron's home.  For the media room, Sharron wanted something energetic, theatrical and musical. An African theme matched the earthen orange door and heavy furniture while a musical theme suited the cubist style inspired by Aaron's many musical instruments.  We painted the skin tones, white, black and mixed race as a play of positive and negative which is very Picasso and visually dynamic. The artworks can be hung in any array should Aaron ever move. 

The Outcome - Another happy client and delighted Interior Designer!

The Picasso House - 'Waterfall'

Client Brief - Continuation from above.  The artworks for 'The Picasso House' are all in keeping with existing natural textures and decor: rock tiles, natural molten glass, timber floors, natural veneer and hues - elements that Sharron and her Interior Designer, Lisa Colburn, were very conscious of utilitising. Client's only stipulation was that his bedroom artwork be very large.  His taste was quite masculine with a love of straight lines, cubism, blacks, reds and greens.

Our Strategy - For a restful bedroom, and to create an artwork a woman would also love, Sharron was inspired by an artwork from the Picasso period. She designed a restful painting which is beautifully accentuated by Lisa's silver metallic decor.  During the art's creative process, Aaron requested stronger shades than Sharron and Lisa originally had in mind, but a careful composition leaving darker colours in on the bottom right corner working with the natural play of light, did the trick. The fact that greens are receding colours and the silver metallics blended into the oil painting's vignettes, which reflected the light, meant the size of this abstract wasn't overly dominating.

The Outcome - Aaron loved his painting, it's size and all the wonderful tones of his favourite colours!

The Picasso House - 'Nun Behind Woman'

Client Brief - Continuation from above.  Behind every woman is one whose secret soul has at some point wanted to be a nun. Client, Aaron, requested an artwork that would give him something to reflect upon from his reading room and add 'Wow' to his hallway. 

Our Strategy - Working with Interior Designer Lisa Colburn, we wanted to paint a portrait to personalise the space  This is Sharron's idea of the kind of woman any man would love. Nun Behind Woman! Painted in oils, as all the Picasso House's artworks were, this piece adds welcome curves to soften the space and to relax the atmosphere.

The Outcome - This was Aaron's favourite piece and for someone who loves blacks, greys and greens, he loved the use of all the bright colours.

The Picasso House - 'Dionysian Feast'

Client Brief - Continuation from above. For the re-design of dining room, Sharron again worked with Interior Designer, Lisa Colburn, to meet her client's requirements. Lisa advised a natural contemporary style which Sharron knew would match her client's home to a T.

Our Strategy -  We wanted something rich, with a little splash of green, a little naughty and with a 'wine, food and good times' theme. Researching Picasso periods, Sharron found many drawings of figures and noticed that Picasso had a phase where he was interested in the classical period or Greco-Roman art and mythology. Putting two and two together, she created a Dionysian Feast ie the Greek God Dionysus who was famous for his orgies of wine and women. Sharron painted it in a most delicate manner, reflective of drawing and focusing on positive versus negative space, relevant to Picasso's work.  Sharron provided all the pantone colours to Lisa who was then able to design a rich, oriental but modern flavoured decor to perfectly enhance Sharron's original oil painting. 

The Outcome - A gorgeous space adored by all and focal point of the dining room.

The Picasso House - 'Artist Studies Hallway'

Client Brief - Continuation from above.  To create an artwork for the kitchen hallway of Aaron's "Picasso House".

Our Strategy - Working with Lisa Colburn from If Design, we chose to create an 18 panel set of 30cm x 30cm canvases each hung in grid pattern all drawn in charcoal as a collage of all the above Picasso styled artworks. The drawings later had oil colour added and when dry, sprayed with a gloss varnish for longevity and effect.

The Outcome - In this dark long space, these artworks have added style, light and colour. 

The Young Apartment - 'The Young Lounge'

Client Brief - Brisbane Interior Designer, Kate Davis Steer, commissioned us to work with her to create her vision of this large floral stripe painting. Kate knew she wanted a collage and that's one of our specialities.

Our Strategy - The white background of the painting is soft, with textured, warm brushy tones. Iridescence, meshed with impasto, resembles the movement of the river outside and the glow and shimmer of the sun. The large floral motif adds a big punch of colour and acts as a focal point for the space, balanced with stripes which again, embueds the sun on water effect. 

The Outcome - Needless to say the client loves this piece of work that has helped create a contemporary yet peaceful lounge room within this fabulous high rise riverside apartment.

The Young Apartment - 'Wind In The Kitchen'

Client Brief - Continuation from above.  To create for Brisbane Interior Designer, Kate Davis Steer, an artwork that would decorate the end of a hallway.  Kate requested art inspired by the vases on the sideboard.

Our Strategy - The corresponding artwork “Young Lounge” is seen not far away and so we carried the floral aspect as if by breeze, through to 'Wind In The Kitchen'. The playful lines add movement to the space and tie design elements together across the open plan living area.  

The Outcome - It acted in uniting the spaces together.

The Young Apartment - 'Josh's Red Geometric'

Client Brief - Continuation from above.  This striking painting was created for the client's adult son who requested lots of hot, rich, racy reds.

Our Strategy - Sharron suggested to Interior Designer, Kate Davis Steer, a geometric design which Kate agreed, loving its masculine appeal.  The reds have been carefully toned and shaded whilst the silver vase and its tinted yellow green occupants, are replicated as delicate trims, softening the painting and mimicking the drawer handles.  As the room needed texture, sectioned areas were masked off and paint, fused with impasto gel, was very thickly trowelled and, with other hues, used to create streaks.

The Outcome -  We added excitement to the space and the young man himself, as well as his mother and Interior Designer, were ecstatic.

'Ros Hines Designs'

Client Brief - Designer Ros Hines showed us a magazine clipping of a Noosa artist’s style and we designed something similar for her meeting/lounge space.

Our Strategy - Ros wanted a low contrasting image with soft, fuzzy textures and muted colours. We created the artwork with shapes familiar to her lounge and carefully added tinges of yellow greens to balance her decor's palette.

The Outcome - Working from home, the meeting/lounge space is now, in contrast to the previous Balinese wall sculpture, a less imposing and more serene space.  The colours blend with the lounge and timbers and the artwork's proportion balances the room nicely, tying in architectural lines which of course, is always important.  Little sparks of red, taken from other areas around the room, help with business and action.