The Art First Interiors Blog

Inspiring stories, ideas and tips to help you bring art to your interiors 

Welcome to the Art First Interiors Blog.  I’m Lorraine Aaron – a professional artist and interior designer with a background in sculpture, painting, public and gallery art.

I’m obsessed about how we can use art as the basis for incredible interior design.  Here on the blog I talk to like minded creative souls and interior style warriors about the things that inspire them, their relationship with art and how it informs their creative process – and look through the keyhole at the amazing interior spaces they create.  

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Peeking through the keyhole of the art first interiors we love and uncovering the ideas and stories of the people who create them.

Journeys into the minds of artists, designers, creators and makers in search of fresh ideas and inspiration!

Quirky, unusual and unexpected stories and experiences that give pause for thought and open up new perspectives.

Creative ideas, hacks and tips to help inspire your interior design process.

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Creative Ideas
Lorraine Aaron

How Buying ‘Good’ Art Can Save Your Life

The art school degree show season has just kicked off and last week I went along to the first of the ‘Big Four’ in Scotland -Dundee (DJCAD) where I studied many moons ago and wow was it exciting stuff! I never tire of witnessing a new wave of talent emerging with sparkling fresh ideas. This made

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Typographical garden art
Creative Ideas
Lorraine Aaron

The Ultimate Place To Put Type Based Art

Type based or typographical art is still the popular choice for eclectic interiors and pocket sized ‘street’ philosophy can now be seen on at least one wall in just about every home in the UK – some specimens more creative and insightful than others I have to say and don’t get me

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artists painted curtain artwork in a garden in southern france
Creative Ideas
Lorraine Aaron

How To Bring Art Into Your Garden

An artist’s garden is a fantasy of mine. I have several garden fantasies ever since we got our own garden after living three floors up in a flat for years. One of them and you’ll know this if you’ve read my Amazonian Garden blog post, is to create a tropical

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Curious and Inspiring Stories
Lorraine Aaron

A Secret Coastal Hideaway

Now that everyone’s in a hurry to plan their Easter holidays, can I ask a question -do you know Henry’s? Well if you do you’re in on the secret and if you don’t, well I’m going to share the secret. It’s a tale of a special place, run by special people

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Daniel Pirsc in his porcelain worshop
Creative Minds
Lorraine Aaron

The Porcelain Wallpaper Maker

Porcelain wallpaper – are you thinking what I was thinking? What could that possibly look like?  The idea was starting to make my head hurt so whilst on our travels through Europe, we decided to seek out the maker of this magic and ask him to explain himself and this

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Image of shoe on display as an artefact
Curious and Inspiring Stories
Lorraine Aaron

How To Turn Lost Love Into Art For Your Home

As an artist I love to see creative ideas come out of everyday life experience so when I saw a beautiful and unconventional approach to lost love being turned into art I was infatuated! I’ll give you a little background to this inspiring discovery and then read on for my

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Creative Ideas
Lorraine Aaron

2017 Home Styling – 5 Retro Art Movements You Need To Know

Hey my first blog post of the year woohoo! January is gone ( hopefully along with its weather!) – always a month of resetting, reflecting and forward planning and now that we stand peering out at the year ahead, it may seem a bit frivolous to be talking about interior

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Creative Minds
Lorraine Aaron

Mario Gerth

Photography is enjoying major superstar status as the choice art form for the coolest, most chic interiors and since we recently launched the incredible work of German artist Mario Gerth in our very own Art Room, I thought it might be interesting to take you a little behind the scenes

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Creative Minds
Lorraine Aaron

Discover Tatine

Oh no! I thought I’d have time to squeeze in another ‘garden’ post just before summer is deemed officially over but with our new Autumn/Winter collection tapping its fingers impatiently, waiting to be uploaded to the site, along with me irresponsibly running off to London Design festival and shirking my

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Creative Ideas
Lorraine Aaron

Decorating With Accent Walls

Don’t know if you’ve heard but apparently decorating with ‘feature’ walls is out. Tchsssh so harsh! – it’s hard not to feel a bit sorry for these discarded heroes of fashion, cast aside and sniggered at with a ‘to-think-anyone-thought-that-looked-good’ smugness that only comes when we know the evidence of our own

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