24 original works in this collection.
Soft-toned canvases to turn your bedroom into a haven: deep blues, powder pinks and water greens, hand-painted in oil on cotton canvas by artist Régine Gardan.
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In the evening, the bedroom is the last room your eyes travel through before sleep. In the morning, it is the first light that greets you. Whatever hangs on its walls accompanies every end and every beginning of your day. A well-chosen piece of bedroom wall art becomes a resting place for the gaze: a surface of soft colour where thoughts settle, the way a book is laid down on the bedside table before the light goes out.
The works in this collection were gathered with this in mind. Régine Gardan, a French painter (1964-2018), treated colour as living matter: pigments laid down with knife and brush, veils of transparency, light that shifts with the hour. Each canvas is hand-painted in oil on cotton canvas, and each work is one of a kind. In a bedroom, this painted matter takes on a special dimension: the low morning light reveals the relief of the brushwork, while the bedside lamp softens the tones at night. Oil dries slowly, layer upon layer, over weeks; some of that patience remains visible in the surface, and something of it passes into the room. The painting lives with the space, following the rhythm of your days.
The 24 works gathered here share one family of tones: deep or misty blues, powder pinks, water greens. Colours that breathe slowly, chosen to envelop rather than awaken.
Colour works on us before we even name it. Blue calls to mind still water and the evening sky; it is associated with a slowing heartbeat and a feeling of coolness. It is the shade most often recommended for an adult bedroom, and one of the most present in Régine Gardan's work. If this family of tones draws you in, the collection of blue abstract paintings brings it together in all its depth, from intense ultramarine to hazy blue.
Powder pink, for its part, warms without stirring. It is the colour of the first morning light on a white wall, a tone that softens the atmosphere and invites tenderness. In a bedroom it pairs naturally with linen, pale wood and off-white.
Water green, finally, brings what plants bring to a room: a feeling of restorative calm, suspended between blue and green, neither quite cool nor quite warm. To explore more deeply what each shade awakens in us, our article on the psychology of colours follows these resonances one by one.
In the canvases of this collection, these three families often answer one another within a single work: a blue sliding towards water green, a pink surfacing beneath a veil of transparency. This quiet conversation between tones explains why a calming painting settles so naturally into a bedroom: it spreads an atmosphere without imposing any image, and everyone can rest their own reveries upon it.
The bedroom is the most personal room in the home. Few guests are ever let in; it is where you return to yourself. A mass-printed reproduction can dress a wall, but a hand-painted work leaves something else there: the trace of a gesture, the true thickness of the pigments, the small ridges of paint that catch the light differently every single day.
Every painting in this collection is a unique piece, painted by Régine Gardan and accompanied by its certificate of authenticity. Her son now watches over this legacy of more than 200 works, awarded in several painting salons in Isère, in the French Alps. Choosing one of these canvases for your bedroom means welcoming, into your most intimate space, a presence that exists nowhere else: no one else in the world falls asleep facing the same work as you. Over the years, it becomes part of the room's memory, woven into thousands of quiet evenings and slow mornings.
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Two places stand out naturally. Above the headboard, first of all: it is the wall that structures the room, the one you discover as you walk in. A painting crowns the bed there and anchors the whole wall decor of the bedroom. Leave around 15 to 25 cm between the top of the headboard and the lower edge of the stretcher, so the arrangement can breathe without seeming to float.
Facing the bed, then: this is the most sensory spot, home to the work you contemplate at night before switching off the light and find again on waking. A canvas in soft tones acts there like a window of calm opened in the wall, a place for the gaze to land as the day loosens its grip.
As for height, the gallery rule remains the safest: the centre of the painting at about 1.60 m from the floor. Above a headboard, hang slightly lower to tie the work visually to the bed. Simply avoid direct midday sun, which tires the pigments over the years. To compose the whole room around the work, our guide to bedroom decor with an abstract painting walks through pairings of materials and tones, wall by wall.
The right size depends on the wall and on how much distance you have to step back. Above a 140 or 160 cm bed, a wide canvas works beautifully: aim for roughly two thirds of the width of the headboard. A large horizontal format extends the line of the bed and gives an impression of calm spaciousness.
In a more compact bedroom, a medium format, around 50 x 70 cm, is enough to let the colour exist without overwhelming the room. Facing the bed, choose a size the eye can take in at a single glance from the pillow, the way one takes in a landscape at dusk.
If your bedroom is already dressed in textures and patterns, a pared-back composition will let the whole room breathe: Régine Gardan's minimalist paintings, where a few fields of colour are enough to create the atmosphere, were made for exactly such spaces. Conversely, a very sober bedroom can welcome a canvas richer in painted matter, which then becomes the beating heart of the room.
Cool, gently saturated tones lead the way: misty blues, water greens, tinted greys. Rather than catching the eye, they rest it. Very soft pinks work too, as long as they stay powdery: a bright pink stimulates, a pale pink envelops. By contrast, bold reds, saturated oranges and strong contrasts keep the eye awake; they are better saved for living areas. This is precisely the thread running through this collection: every work was chosen for the gentleness of its palette and the slow pace of its visual rhythm. Take your time browsing the 24 canvases; yours will be the one before which your breathing settles all on its own.
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