Lighting for Your Paintings Display 7 points and How correct lighting will influence your art Presentation and art sale

Lighting for Your Artworks and How correct lighting will influence your art display and also for artists their art sale? lights are so important that if you knew how this influences sale of a painting, every artist would pay a lot more attention on art display with correct lighting.  Lighting for your precious paintings is absolutely essential for the right look for your art. No doubt when you buy an original artwork it is loved by you and also one that you wish to display in your personal space be it your home or office.

Infinity artwork with side lights

Lights can work wonders to your art on walls. A dull environment or low lightning can elevate or mar the effects and visual appearance of your paintings. I have noticed my old painting photographs, so dull, blurred and they do not even show the exact art how it looks. 

Try displaying a painting in the dark corner of a gallery, no one will view it. It is understood that bright lights attract more visitors to your artwork. Similarly when you are hanging paintings in your home, keep in mind the lighting factor to show the best beauty of your wall  art. 

Sufi Vase painting with indirect light hung in office

Focused lighting helps to bring out the best in the wall art and when appropriately selected give the art another added beauty. Lights for artworks are in thousands of varieties from simplistic to ornate ones serving different unique functions.

 From top ceiling installed lights to central lights to base ones and focused ones they each fulfill different functions. Floor lights, concealed lights and so much more. 

Without the proper lighting arrangements your artworks will look dull and not give out the desired effects and visual appeal to the eye. There may be some shadows, some dull parts and some too bright parts in your paintings without proper lighting. However unique the art and whatever you have paid for it if there is no proper lighting the effects are never the same, enjoy your awesome art with appropriate and best lighting arrangements!

You may be tempted to not think about anything else except the original painting but displaying correctly the artwork is also important for the buyers to view the art. A gloomy room full of beautiful paintings will not give much sales. 

Natural day light for this large blue Reiki abstract painting 

Yet over whelming bright lights sometimes may hurt the emotions and subject of the art displayed there. 

Hence it is essential to choose correct lighting to do justice to the art, colours in the painting and the subject displayed there. 

7 points you will think off while arranging lighting effects for displaying art, whether you are an artist or an art buyer displaying art this knowledge will help you. 

1) Check the colours. bright colours can do away with less light. dull colours may require brighter lights. 

2) Subject in the painting, if spiritual may require soft lighting. Depends upon the subject painted in the artwork. Strong lighting over spiritual paintings will create shar/negative feng shui energy.

Gallery wall with small abstract paintings indirect light

3) Oil paintings that are varnished may require indirect lighting when displaying them. Otherwise they will reflect back and one is unable to view the painting clearly. 

Also those framed in glass require careful lighting as it reflects light and blurs the art view. 

Hidden Treasures painting light reflecting from glass frame

4) Geometric and colourful abstracts are live energy. they need to be hanged in natural lighted areas to spread the energy. If the room is bright with direct sunlight or indirect sunlight for full day you will need less artificial lighting near the painting. 

5) In art galleries choose the space where it does justice to your art. Large painting will require appropriate lighting surrounding it. Small sized artworks will need base, to or side ways lighting , that is focused lighting to bring out its beauty. Otherwise small sized paintings will get lost in the large wall spaces and buyers will just pass by without giving it a second look. 

Art display

Art display

Paintings displayed

Different size artworks displayed

Art display in corner 

6) Paintings hung in entrances require special lighting as it will also highlight the door area. Hanging a mirror will multiply the artwork images so be careful to use positive subjects for entrance art. Avoid God figure art as this will repel people who don't follow that path. Choose inspirational art with bright lights for entrances of home and office.

7) The painting hanging beside the artwork is also important with its lighting. See that it does not reflect, confuse the viewer. Choose similar or harmonizing theme paintings to be displayed together as a gallery wall in home or office.

Art studio clearing and organizing 2025

Like always did clearing of my area of home studio, tearing damaged artworks, removing broken frames, and some smelly oil paintings that may damage other good artworks. This also gives me a clear picture of how many thousands of artworks I still have and yet passionately long to paint more! Buy my paintings only from my personal art website.

Hope this helps! 

Have a Blessed Day from Rizwana! Your's The Red Pilgrim!

All paintings displayed in this post are my original and available for sale @Razarts. Dedicated since year 2000 towards spreading Reiki energy with the world through my abstract symbol Reiki healing paintings.