ORIGINAL ART BY CLARE CHENEY
Original abstract paintings for sale.
One-of-a-kind acrylic paintings with color that moves, marks that stay loose, and just enough of the natural world to keep them grounded.
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COLOR WITH A LITTLE WILDNESS
Art that keeps a room from playing it too safe.
An abstract painting can be the piece that changes the temperature of a room. It might wake up a quiet wall with a sweep of cobalt or make a familiar corner feel more open with a field of pink, orange, and cream. You do not need an all-white loft, a matching rug, or a carefully arranged shelf for that to happen. You only need a wall that could use a little life.
Clare Cheney’s abstract work is made from observation, then loosened up. A bloom may be more gesture than petal. Branches can turn into a pattern. Color does not stay politely inside the lines. The result is expressive without feeling remote, full of the warmth and surprise of something made by hand. Every painting is an original, so the marks, layers, and small accidents belong to one piece only.
AVAILABLE ORIGINALS
Choose the painting with the energy you want to live with.
Each available work is signed, one of a kind, and listed with its exact dimensions. Spend a little time with the color before deciding. The painting that keeps pulling you back is often the one that will feel right on the wall.
NOT JUST DECORATION
Let the painting bring its own mood.
Abstract art does not need to explain itself all at once. From across the room, it can be a bright shape that makes the furniture around it feel more awake. Up close, the surface starts to do more: a line of paint, a brush mark left visible, a color showing through another color. That change of pace is part of the pleasure. The work stays interesting after the first look.
Because Clare’s paintings keep one foot in flowers, gardens, and remembered places, they bring more than a decorative color block. There is something to notice and return to, without the pressure of a scene that tells you exactly what to see. A loose floral can feel at home above a vintage sideboard, in a clean-lined living room, beside shelves of books, or on the small wall that greets you when you come through the door.
Think about the feeling you want rather than a perfect match. Cobalt can give a neutral room a little nerve. Poppy orange can warm up wood and linen. Pink can keep a dark corner from feeling too serious. The painting is allowed to be the liveliest thing in the room. Often that is what makes the whole room feel more like yours.
FINDING THE RIGHT PLACE
How an abstract painting can live in your home.
Above a sofa or console
Use the painting as a clear focal point, not a final accessory. Mark the listed dimensions with painter’s tape, then look from the place where you sit most often. A strong burst of color can hold a large wall beautifully, but it still needs a little breathing room around it.
In a dining room or kitchen
Expressive color can bring warmth to the rooms where the day gathers. A floral abstraction is especially good company near a table because it feels generous and alive without demanding that every meal or surface look formal.
For a bedroom or reading corner
Choose a painting with a color rhythm you would like to meet at the beginning and end of the day. A smaller work can give a quiet corner its own private spark, especially when the rest of the room is simple.
Alongside other art
An abstract painting can be the color note that connects a mixed wall of photographs, landscapes, and drawings. Let one hue repeat somewhere else in the group, keep the spacing steady, and allow each piece enough room to carry its own character.
ART FOR THE LIFE ALREADY HAPPENING
You do not need a finished room before adding a little boldness.
It is easy to hold off on art until every practical choice has been made. Maybe the sofa still needs a side table, the paint color is not quite settled, or the room is waiting for some imagined future version of itself. Real homes rarely arrive at that finish line. They change with the season, the people in them, and the ordinary clutter of a day well lived.
Original art can be part of the room now. It does not have to match every cushion or repeat every color. In fact, a painting with a little more energy than the rest of the room can be the thing that keeps it from feeling over-arranged. It gives your eye a place to land, then something new to notice when the light changes or the day has been long.
If you are choosing between two pieces, imagine each one during an ordinary Tuesday. Notice it while you make coffee. Catch it from the sofa. See it as you drop your keys at the end of the day. The better painting is not necessarily the safest one. It is the one that makes the room feel a little more welcoming, more awake, or more like a place you want to return to.
THE DETAILS MATTER
There is no substitute for a painting made by hand.
A reproduction can deliver a color palette. An original painting carries the decisions that made it, the layered paint, the places where a brush moved quickly, and the small shifts that cannot be repeated exactly. Clare’s abstract paintings are made to live with, not to wait for a special room. They can bring pleasure to a hallway, a kitchen wall, a favorite chair, or the place you pass most often.
If flowers are what first caught your eye, explore the fuller collection of original floral paintings. If you are deciding where the work will go, the Journal has a practical guide to decorating with art room by room.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
A few useful answers before you choose.
Are these abstract paintings originals?
Yes. Every available work is a one-of-a-kind original acrylic painting by Clare Cheney. The painting shown in its listing is the exact piece you receive.
What kind of abstract paintings does Clare make?
Clare’s work begins with the natural world, then lets color, gesture, and simplified shapes lead. Flowers, branches, and gardens may still be there, but the painting is as interested in energy and atmosphere as it is in literal detail.
Will an abstract painting work with my existing decor?
It can. Start with the feeling and color temperature you want to bring into the room rather than trying to match every object. A confident painting often gives a neutral, traditional, or clean-lined room the note of surprise it was missing.
How can I choose the right size?
Use the listed dimensions and painter’s tape to test the shape on your wall. Look from where you actually sit and walk through the room, then choose the scale that feels present without crowding the furniture below it.
MAKE ROOM FOR A LITTLE WILDNESS