ORIGINAL ART BY CLARE CHENEY
Original acrylic paintings for sale.
One-of-a-kind paintings with vivid color, loose brushwork, and the familiar feeling of a place you want to keep close.
Browse available paintings
PAINTED BY HAND, MADE TO LIVE WITH
Bring home the color, texture, and small surprises of the real thing.
An original acrylic painting brings more than a color palette to a room. It holds the actual evidence of its making: a brush mark that changed direction, a thinner wash of color showing through, a thicker edge that catches afternoon light. Those details give your eye something to return to long after the first look. They make a wall feel less finished and more alive.
Clare Cheney paints flowers, coastlines, trees, kitchen tables, and places that linger in the mind. Her acrylic work stays loose enough to leave room for your own memory, but it is never distant or overly precious. A bright bouquet can warm the room where you make coffee. A stretch of blue water can open up a quiet hallway. A forest path can give an ordinary corner somewhere to wander. Every painting is a one-of-a-kind original, made by hand in California and ready to find its own place in a real home.
AVAILABLE ORIGINALS
Choose the painting that keeps asking for another look.
Each work is signed, one of a kind, and listed with its exact dimensions. Spend a little time with the color and the feeling. The piece that keeps drawing you back is often the one that belongs on your wall.
Out of the Woods , Original 16x20 California Coastal Landscape Painting, Redwood Forest and Ocean
$275.00
Winter Reflections , Original 8x10 Landscape Painting | Minimalist Blue and White Acrylic Trees
$165.00
MORE THAN A MATCHING EXERCISE
Let the painting bring its own point of view.
You do not need to match every cushion, chair, or lamp to choose original art. In fact, a painting often works best when it brings one note the room did not already have: a cobalt blue that wakes up a pale wall, a warm orange that makes wood feel richer, or a green that gives a clean-lined space some depth. Let it be the most lively thing in the room if that is what the room needs.
Think about your daily sightlines instead of an imaginary finished room. You might see the painting when you pass the kitchen table, come in through the front door, settle into the sofa, or turn toward the window in the morning. That is where art earns its place. It does not need to make a grand entrance every time. It can simply make a familiar moment feel a little more generous.
Acrylic is particularly good company in a lived-in space because its layers keep offering something new. A painting can look bolder from across the room and more intimate up close. As the light shifts, a small patch of color or a visible brushstroke may become the part you notice most. That change of pace is one of the quiet pleasures of choosing the original instead of a reproduction.
FINDING THE RIGHT PLACE
How to choose an original acrylic painting for the room you already have.
Start with the wall, not the whole house
Choose one wall that could use a little more presence, then use the listed dimensions to mark out the shape with painter’s tape. Look at it from where you actually sit or walk by. This gives you a more honest sense of scale than trying to imagine it from a screen.
Follow the feeling before the color match
A coastal painting may bring openness, while flowers can make a room feel warmer and more sociable. A darker woodland piece can settle a bright, busy space. Start with the mood you want, then let the color be the thing that makes the choice feel natural.
Let a smaller work be a discovery
A small original does not have to disappear. It can give a narrow hall, bedside wall, reading corner, or kitchen nook a point of interest that feels personal rather than over-decorated. Give it enough quiet space around it to do its work.
Give a larger work room to breathe
Above a sofa, sideboard, or dining table, a larger painting can be the piece that holds the whole wall together. Leave some clear space around it and avoid crowding it with too many nearby objects. The goal is not formality, just enough room for the painting to be seen.
ART FOR THE LIFE ALREADY HAPPENING
You do not need a perfect room before choosing something made by hand.
It is easy to postpone art until everything else is settled. The sofa should be replaced first. The rug should be more certain. The wall color should be final. But homes rarely reach that finish line, and waiting can leave the rooms you use most feeling oddly unfinished. An original painting can belong now, while the room is still becoming itself.
That is especially true for acrylic work with a little movement in it. Clare’s paintings do not ask the furniture to behave or the shelves to be perfectly arranged. They make space for the ordinary clutter and warmth of a real day. Flowers can sit beside a stack of books. A coastline can hold its own above the couch where everyone gathers. A kitchen still life can make even a practical wall feel more welcoming.
If you are torn between pieces, imagine each one on an ordinary Tuesday. Notice it while you make coffee, leave your keys, or sit down at the end of the day. The right painting is not always the safest choice. It is the one that makes the room feel more like somewhere you want to return to.
THE DETAILS STAY WITH YOU
An original keeps giving after the wall is finished.
A reproduction can repeat a picture, but it cannot repeat the decisions that happened while the painting was made. The layered color, the edges left loose, and the places where the paint changes speed all belong to one work only. Those are the details that make original art feel like company rather than simply decoration.
Explore original floral paintings when you are drawn to color and bloom, or browse original landscape paintings for coastlines, forests, and a little more room to breathe. If you are still finding the right place, the Journal has a practical guide to choosing art for your home.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
A few useful answers before you choose.
Are these acrylic paintings originals?
Yes. Every available work is a one-of-a-kind original acrylic painting by Clare Cheney. The painting pictured in its listing is the exact piece you receive.
What makes an original acrylic painting different from a print?
A print repeats an image. An original carries the actual layers of paint, brushwork, changes of direction, and small decisions that made that one piece. Those details remain visible as you live with it.
How do I choose the right acrylic painting for my home?
Start with the wall and the feeling you want the room to hold. Use the listed dimensions and painter’s tape to test the shape, then notice which painting keeps calling you back. A good choice does not have to match everything else in the room.
Will the colors look the same in person?
Screens can shift color a little. Each listing includes several photographs and exact dimensions so you can get the fullest possible sense of the painting before you choose it.
FIND THE ONE THAT FEELS LIKE HOME