The natural format of living spaces
Our interiors are full of horizontal lines: the sofa, the headboard, the sideboard. A horizontal abstract painting extends those lines instead of contradicting them. That is why it always looks at home: it follows the natural rhythm of the room and widens it to the eye.
It is also the format of calm. Like a landscape or a horizon line, a horizontal composition invites the eye to sweep slowly across the canvas, from left to right. In Régine Gardan’s works, that movement becomes a breath: waves of colour, bands of light, a continuous flow.
How to hang it well
Above a piece of furniture, leave 20 to 30 cm between the top of the furniture and the bottom of the canvas, and choose an artwork about two thirds of the width of the furniture: together they will form a balanced visual block. Above a sofa, this format is the safest choice; above a bed, it brings the calm a bedroom calls for.
As for colours, a blue evokes the sea and rests the eye, a multicolour wakes up a neutral living room, a yellow lets in the morning light.
Looking for height rather than width? Browse the vertical abstract paintings, or go back to all the works.
