How to Create the best gallery wall ever!

Written By Patric Chauvez Editor-In-Chief

As I write, we’re currently getting ready for our next open-hours weekend, which involves redecorating and creating a welcoming interior for our visitors and returning clients. For today’s post, we created a gallery wall with some of our art that is currently for sale on the website and in the store. In creating a wall of art of different sizes, colors, and subject matter, we chose a focal point. In this case, size and color matter. I prefer to center the main piece that is rich in scale, color, and detail. Scale and centering are key to a balanced tableau. After the centerpiece is up, I balance it out with corresponding pieces on either side, keeping in mind to balance size and color, and subject matter, so it tells a story within a story. I then fill in the blank spaces with smaller paintings that are of the same colors and genre, making it as condensed as you’d like.

Patric Chauvez Editor-In-Chief

Patric Chauvez was born in the British Crown colony of Belize and remembers, in his early teens, being an avid reader of Connoisseur Magazine, where he developed his love of beautiful things. From the beginning, he loved to read about Jacqueline de Ribes and the fashion of Ungaro and Yves St. Laurent. Patric came to Chicago in 1984 and attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he studied fashion and art history. His first job out of art school was dressing mannequins in the couture department for Neiman Marcus.

In the early 1990s, Patric began to style fashion shows for Christian Lacroix and Christian Dior ready-to-wear and haute couture under the direction of Gianfranco Ferré. His career as a stylist assistant began upon his return to Chicago, and the rest is pure history.

Patric is a former contributor to the Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine section and has created styles for Oprah, Toni Braxton, and the opera singer Renée Fleming. With his years of experience in the industry, Patric has developed a reputation for knowledgeable & true expert of all things fashion. His love of beautiful clothes contributes to his deep appreciation style.

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