3 Rooms to Add Art to This Autumn
Autumn changes which rooms get used. The terrace empties out, the lamps go on earlier, and the hours after dark start happening indoors again. Three rooms are worth a second look this month: the dining room, where the evenings now start earlier and the table matters more; the living room, where people actually sit once the light goes; and the quiet corner that gets ignored all summer and suddenly earns its keep once the afternoons turn shorter. Each room asks for a different kind of painting, and each one below is a real piece from the gallery's current collection, in stock and ready to hang.
The Dining Room
A dining room can take bold colour, because meals are social and the room is rarely asked to be calm. It is also usually seen after dark, under warm, low light, so a painting there benefits from a palette strong enough to hold its own once the sun goes down. Fruit mix (2026) by Helder Batista sets a yellow rind dotted with white seeds beside red berries piled into a corner, with orange segments caught mid-spill across the canvas. Batista lets each shape stay loose enough that a coconut could just as easily read as a sun, and the palette leans bright and a little chaotic: red loops crossing teal, yellow butting against blue. At 140 × 144 cm, it has the scale and the appetite for a wall that gets to preside over your table once it fills up with its own plates and colour.
It arrives framed and ready to hang. Price on request: View Artwork.
One of the gallery's own projects shows the same idea at work in a real home: an open-plan dining, living and kitchen space, styled this October with bold colour that holds its own once the lamps go on.
The Living Room
That same logic flips once the room changes. The dining room is lived in for an hour or two at a time; the living room is where people actually settle, often with the television off and nothing much happening beyond conversation. The painting there has to earn a longer look.
The living room holds a different kind of painting, since it is the piece people end up living with every evening, long after the meal is over. Mediterranean Summer III (2026) by Alberto Márquez keeps a looser mood: under a wide, cloud-streaked blue sky, a hot-pink lounge chair anchors the foreground, its surface flecked with loose drips of paint, while yellow and green striped umbrellas mark the tideline behind it and a small sailboat drifts across the bay. The linework stays precise even where the colour turns loose, so the painting reads as both mapped out and spontaneous. At 150 × 100 cm on wood panel, framed and ready to hang, it holds its own above a sofa or a console. Aim for something close to two-thirds the width of the furniture below it, with its centre at roughly 150 cm from the floor, and leave enough wall around it to breathe.
€3.950. View Artwork.
A Jaloe project completed this August followed the same rule in a Japandi-influenced apartment, where a grey and beige abstraction by Covella hangs opposite the television, in exactly the kind of permanent spot a living room painting needs.
A Quiet Corner
A living room painting has to work from across a room; a quiet corner painting only has to work from a few feet away, and that changes what suits it. Natural light helps here more than anywhere else in your home, so a spot near a window, away from direct sun, usually serves a smaller painting best.
Every home has one spot that goes unused all summer and then matters again once the light turns: a reading chair, a landing, the end of a hallway. A smaller painting fills it best, something sized for a close, seated view. Dreamy Sunset II (2025) by Covella suits it well. Soft, radiant hues flow into one another across the canvas, carrying the gentle warmth of a fading sunset, and the layered mixed media gives the surface a quiet depth that rewards a slow, steady look. At 138 × 118 cm, framed and ready to hang, it sits at a scale that works well at seated eye level, somewhere autumn's shorter afternoons make it easier to sit still for a few minutes and actually look at it.
€1.850. View Artwork.
A Jaloe project from September found exactly this kind of spot on a staircase and landing, where Fernanz's soft, patterned dots meet Helder Batista's louder, gestural marks just a few steps apart.
The Rule to Remember
Across all three rooms, the rule is the same: let the room's actual use decide the art, then measure the wall to fit it. A dining room can carry bold colour because meals are social and temporary, and nobody studies the painting for long. A living room benefits from a piece calm enough to live with every evening, hung at a scale that suits the furniture beneath it. A quiet corner rewards something smaller and quieter still, since it is the one place in the home meant for lingering. Start with how you actually use the room, and the right piece gets much easier to spot. None of this needs to happen in one visit. A dining room can get its painting this month and the living room can wait for spring. The collection changes often, so there is rarely a shortage of new work to choose from when the time comes.
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Tell us about the wall: the room, the measurements, a photograph if you have one. Our advisors will send a short selection that fits the space and the season, and consultation is complimentary.
