When I was young, I remember spending hours flipping through the Sears & Spiegel catalogs, circling every little thing my heart desired and hoping to receive a few of those wishes for Christmas. While there are still lovely things I want, my tastes and passions are a little more grown up and my treasures a bit more lasting. I am often asked, whose art I would be in my dream collection? I think about it quite a bit– too much probably! It’s so very difficult to choose, I’ve discovered the work of a great many fantastically talented artists! I think for me, a perhaps for many art lovers and collectors, it comes down to whose work do I want to live with every day?
jennifer jones | gigi mills | christina baker
In order to want to dwell with an artist’s work, hopefully for a very long time, I need to feel a deep connection to it, to have something inside me stir and resonate each time I look at it. Whether it’s their use of light, line, color, or texture, I need to delight in it and be able to lose myself. It’s probably obvious that I’m drawn to a certain palette, too, as color is for me, a strong part of a work’s appeal.
I consider myself very lucky to already own small pieces by a few of these artists ( all my art is in storage or I would share those with you! ), but they are, every single one, artists whose work I fell in love with the very first time I saw it. And they are artists whose work I consistently return to time and time again.
rachel denny | casey matthews | susan hall
Perhaps I have a bit of an advantage, being exposed to the work of so many gifted artists, but maybe my biggest privilege has been to get to know these artists personally. And those friendships and relationships make their work even more special to me than it otherwise would be. Getting to know the artists whose work you’d like to collect will help you understand and appreciate your collection even more.
Just putting this together motivates me to save my pennies so that I can start hoarding more artwork! What about you? Who would be in your own dream art collection?
All image sources credited above. Please note some artwork has been cropped from the original.
