Michael and I have a goal of bringing more art into our home over the next couple of years. I’ve mentioned before how it can be a little daunting to know where to start looking for artists. But have you ever been searching, and then all at once an artist’s collection or piece of art just sings to you? Your heart is doing backflips and your mind is racing? That happens to me a lot in museums, where I feel a connection with an artist, but it’s (obviously!) harder to find that in the art market in a real and affordable way.
I’m so, so thrilled to share today’s (HUGE) give away from acclaimed artist and philanthropist, Jessie Mackay, and artist who makes my heart sing. Her work has been praised by NYT art critics and hangs in celebrity homes (check out her paintings in James Carville and Mary Matalin’s home featured in Architectural Digest). Here are a few of my favorites currently available on Jessie’s site.
Today she is generously offering up this 24×30 gallery-wrapped abstract painting called ‘Soft Thoughts.’
Here are some close ups of this lovely painting, just sitting in my loft, waiting to be shipped to your home!
I love the bits of bright, almost neon paint peeking through the soft grays and creams.
Lucky you, there are a couple of ways to enter your name into the pot.
1) Simply leave a comment on this post sharing where you would hang ‘Soft Thoughts’ in your home.
2) Like Jessie Mackay Art on Facebook and leave a comment on this post saying so.
3) Pin your favorite Jessie Mackay art from her site and leave a comment on this post saying so.
The winner will be chosen at random from the comments here on July 25 at midnight. Good luck!
****CONGRATS TO WINNER JAMIE LUNT! THANK YOU ALL FOR ENTERING****
Love, love, love this. I would want it to be the first thing you see when you walk through the door.
I love this so much! I would hang this beauty in my entry way for sure!
Love the soft colours, painting is one of my most meditative skills, and this would certainly be inspiring.
I would hang it over my bed
I liked her on fb
I pinned something
http://pinterest.com/pin/106608716149844254/
We too are in the process of starting to collect art for our home… It can be daunting! I would love to hang this in our bedroom.
Over my bed! Our bedroom is sorely lacking in the art department :(
We too are in the process of starting to collect art for our home… It can be daunting! I would love to hang this in our bedroom.
Just pinned her "Day's End"…gorgeous.
I love it! It'd be perfect for the living room, I wouldn't mind seeing it every day (:
Liked on Facebook as well!
I'd put it in my bedroom – and go to bed early every night just so I could gaze at it! Love it!
I pinned Jumping Juniper – it is so beautiful! Thanks for the chance!
I liked her on Facebook. Thanks again for the chance!
Really beautiful. I would hang this in my family room. It would be the perfect burst of color.
Oh goodness me…it's gorgeous! I would put it in my bedroom, right where I can see it from my bed. Love.
So beautiful! I'd hang it over my sofa on a stretch of wall between two windows.
So beautiful! I'd hang it over my sofa on a stretch of wall between two windows.
wow! gorgeous! I'm thinking it would be lovely in the nursery for the new babe on the way!
This would be perfect over my bed!
"Liked" Jessie Mackay on facebook!
This would look fabulous mixed into my staircase gallery wall!
I pinned Serenity! Love it so!
I would love to have it in the foyer so everyone can enjoy it when they come to our house!
In my home there is a wall that aches for color to share its subdued light. The wall is in the entry way and is shares it's empty face with my great room dining room and kitchen. This wall is big and white and would love to live under the soft strokes of lovely colored placed on a Jessie Mackay canvas. As this would be the first piece of fine art it will always be treated as such.
Thanks for concidering my wall.
A.C. Delacroix
I would be honored to hang this painting in our living room!
"Liked" on good old Facebook! I can't wait for others to be inspired too.
I would hang it in my master bedroom. Gorgeous!
I love, LOVE this piece! I would definitely hang it in the living room of the new apartment we just moved in to that I've been struggling to redecorate!
I liked her on facebook!
This is so beautiful. Like you said the other day, art is so personal and this painting just feels so good! Thanks for introducing us to a great artist.
I would hang this in my living room.
I liked Jessie Mackay on Facebook. Of course!
I'd hang that bad boy front and center in the livingroom, love the color and mood! I also pinned the monarch on Pinterest!
We're about to move into a new, much bigger house, so we're going to have tons of empty wall space that could use a painting like this! I'm thinking it would probably go in the living room. Or the bedroom.
my front room is crying out for something to hang between 2 sconces. this is it.
Gorgeous! I would hang it above my entry table for everyone to see!!
Gorgeous! I would hang it above my entry table for everyone to see!!
I would hang it in my dining room. This is a beautiful piece.
This would be lovely in my upper hallway. Wonderful giveaway!
What a beautiful piece of art! I would prominently display this painting in my master bedroom above the bed. It would be the perfect pop of color in an otherwise all white room. Absolutely gorg!
I would probably hang it in our bedroom. The soft colors seems great for that!
I liked Jessie Mackay Art on Facebook!
I pinned Sandy's Garden on pinterest- love it!
Beautiful I would hang it in my girls room. It's lovely
Fantastic painting! I would hang it over the buffet in my dining room!
Lovely! We are decorating a nursery, it would lokk great above the crib!
I pinned Days End. Liked her on facebook, and I would put that painting in my dining room!
We're moving soon, and I would love to put this in my entry way. Beautiful!
Just liked Jessie Mackay on facebook as well!