Moonleaf
Art that leaves room for the room
A wall does not need to be filled. The pieces here are built around an empty centre on purpose, an arch of wildflowers or a thin botanical border with nothing inside it. On a busy wall that emptiness is what lets the eye rest, and next to a full bookshelf or a patterned sofa it is usually the only thing in the room that is not asking for attention.
The open middle is also practical. It is the natural place for a name, a date, a line you like or a verse that matters to you, added by hand or by a print shop, without fighting the artwork for space.
Hanging height, the part everyone guesses
Galleries hang the centre of a work at roughly eye level, about 145 to 150 centimetres from the floor, and living rooms benefit from the same habit. The common mistake is hanging too high, which leaves the art floating and the wall beneath it dead. Above a sofa or a sideboard, measure from the furniture instead: a hand's width to about 25 centimetres of gap keeps the two reading as one arrangement.
Pairs, and why two is easier than five
A gallery wall of many frames is genuinely hard to balance and tends to need rearranging for weeks. Two matched pieces, hung at the same height with an even gap, gives you most of the effect and almost none of the difficulty. The arch and the botanical frame are drawn in one palette so that they can hang as a pair without competing.
Frames and mounts
- A mount does the heavy lifting. A wide paper border around the print makes a modest piece look considered, and it lets a smaller print fill a larger frame.
- Keep the frame quiet. Light oak, natural wood or a thin off white edge suits this palette. Heavy black or ornate gold pulls the eye to the frame instead of the art.
- Match the whites. A cool bright white mount next to a warm cream print makes the print look dirty. Warm paper next to warm art.
The pieces
Each one has its own page with what it shows, the sizes it prints at and how to get it onto paper. €9 a piece, as a file you download.
Questions people ask
What does a piece cost?
A single piece is 9 euro. Three pieces from one collection are 24 euro. Each one is a digital file you download and print yourself.
What is in the download?
The artwork at 3328 by 4864 pixels, which prints to 28 by 41 centimetres at 300 dpi and to any smaller size, together with a printing guide and a licence for personal use.
Is the empty centre meant to stay empty?
Either way works. It is drawn as a resting space, and it also takes a name, a date or a line of text well if you want to add one.
What frame suits this palette?
Light oak, natural wood or a thin off white edge. Heavy black and ornate gold both pull attention away from a soft, quiet piece.
How high should I hang them?
Aim for the centre of the artwork at about eye level, roughly 145 to 150 centimetres from the floor. Above furniture, measure the gap from the furniture instead and keep it between a hand's width and about 25 centimetres.
What is in every download
The artwork at its full resolution, a printing guide written for this kind of art, and a licence for your own walls. Nothing is posted. The file is yours to keep and to print again whenever a room changes.