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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Relaxed, fun chats about art and creativity with people we find interesting and inspiring.

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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Lorraine Aaron

Tales of Glass Eyes…

The gentle up and down of the road to Lauscha has a soothing effect on our minds after the overload of delights in Berlin. Its quite fresh outside and the green landscape is a welcome change from the hard lines of the cities. We pass lots of small villages scattered

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Creative Minds
Lorraine Aaron

Challenging Sculpture

Leipzig is described as eastern Germany’s most dynamic city after Berlin. The art produced here appears to be a sizzling mix of classical realism (where traditional methods of drawing/painting/sculpting are used to accurately capture the anatomy and mood of the subject) and a ‘relatively’ new found (post communist) freedom of

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Curious and Inspiring Stories
Lorraine Aaron

Flea Market Finds!

After a day or two of rest we head in for another day in Berlin. This time a recommended Sunday flea market and ‘hidden’ art market are our target destinations.  Berlin has a lovely vibe on a Sunday with plenty of excuses to kick back, relax and people watch. There are one or

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Curious and Inspiring Stories
Lorraine Aaron

Emotive Buildings, Eclectic Interiors

We’re shooting across Germany on these superfast autobahns. Both of us are excited to be heading to Berlin not least because of the dire events of yesterday but we’re both keen to discover more about this cool and edgy city (its Roddy’s first visit too and I know he’ll love

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Curious and Inspiring Stories
Lorraine Aaron

Whimsical Garden Sculpture…

After the heart stopping ceramic artworks we found in Seigburg, followed by a quick but interesting visit to the home of Kushi Grazzini and her husband Ilija Frenzel who make contemporary salt glazed vases and replica medieval tableware respectively, we made the difficult decision not to visit the lively and

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Curious and Inspiring Stories
Lorraine Aaron

Giant Vessels, Colossal Cathedrals

Cologne has a cool, charming almost Parisian feel about it with its ornate stately buildings and busy corner cafes and we are sat comfortably at one of these like locals, sipping an early morning coffee while on the phone. We are arranging to visit the studios of some artists who

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Curious and Inspiring Stories
Lorraine Aaron

Curious Tools & Handmade Textiles

The little campsite at Grimbergen just outside Brussels was a gem of a find, very clean, organised and yet chilled out (we generally steer away from over organised campsites -too uptight and over manicured) with attractive layout and planting – as much as we’d like to wild camp we need wi fi

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Curious and Inspiring Stories
Lorraine Aaron

Wild Winds to Stitched Paper Prints

Phew! After spending a lovely sunset first evening across the Channel in Blankenberge Belgium, eating tasty seafood and sipping wine beside the sea, we spent a scary night braving a major storm at our beachside campsite – I actually believed at one point that we might spin off into the night

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Curious and Inspiring Stories
Lorraine Aaron

The Curious Egg Adventure

There’s something childishly thrilling about a tiny living space, especially one on wheels that you will call home for the next three months and that will store your belongings, bed and kitchen area in ingenious little nooks and crannies ready for an adventure! I also enjoy the problem solving, discipline

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Curious and Inspiring Stories
Lorraine Aaron

The Trip

So starting the blog was the first part of the dream, the second was to go on a trip. A trip like no other we’ve ever been on and one that would mean throwing caution to the wind, jumping off the edge and not knowing where or if we would

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