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f you’ve chosen to decorate your home guided by the principles of the ancient practice of Feng Shui, there are many different aspects to consider. How you place furniture, position artwork or even choose colors to decorate your living space can all have an impact on the flow of energy throughout your home.
Feng Shui may seem complicated, and it is possible to be quite detailed with the practice, but how in-depth you get is entirely up to you. The basic principles of Feng Shui are easy to follow and bring balance into our hectic, modern lives. Feng Shui allows good energy to flow through your home unencumbered; it can help you capture positive energy and capitalize on its potential, while keeping negative energy away.
When positioning your furniture, you should first do it in a way that maximizes comfort and convenience. Try to keep high traffic areas of your home open and unobstructed, and while your living space should feel welcoming and cozy, they should also be free of clutter. Make sure your rooms have “breathing space” and invite good feelings in. Overall, the goal should be to direct the flow of energy in a harmonious manner.
Ensure there are no objects blocking external or internal doorways in your home, as this can symbolize blocked opportunities in your life. A good principle is to place main pieces of furniture in “command positions” – facing the doorways, off to the side. In addition, furniture in living rooms can be placed in conversation areas. You may even wish to set up decorative dividers or screens, so long as they don’t clutter up the space, to ensure there are no straight paths from doors to windows for good energy to be released from.
Placing furniture in your home office in a “command position” is also essential. Choosing to position your desk facing the door and off to the side, so long as a window isn’t directly behind you, can improve your career prospects. It can also increase productivity, number of customers, amount of respect for you professionally and overall success.
In the bedroom, the most important point to consider is how to place your bed. The worst way is in front of a door with your feet facing out to the hallway. This is known as “coffin position” because they’re usually taken out of a room feet-first. Doing so promotes negative energy. Furthermore, in the bedroom it’s imperative that your head isn’t right by the window while you’re sleeping. This allows your personal energy, or chi, escape.
Feng Shui is applicable to every room in your house, even the kitchen. It’s important to position your appliances in ways that promote a harmonious balance between the different elements they harness, such as fire and water. Doing so will encourage greater health, happiness and prosperity for you entire family.
In addition to using the principles of Feng Shui to determine how you place your furniture, you can also use it when deciding what type of art will decorate your abode, plus where and how you’ll place it. Choosing and placing works of art according to the practice of Feng Shui will help the flow of energy into your home. Furthermore, it’s important to keep in mind that certain colours, images and shapes can bring in needed positive energy, while others can drain the home of it and lower vibrations.
Some people think that choosing art to enhance their homes Feng Shui means choosing Asian art pieces, but that isn’t the case. It doesn’t matter the style of art or what country it originates from. The art should speak to you, be something you enjoy and compliment your Bagua, or Feng Shui energy map.
Placing art strategically will help direct the flow of energy in your home. For example, you may wish to line the walls up your staircase with pictures, but hang them straight across the wall, not in a graduated line parallel to the steps. This will create balance and stability and keeps the flow of energy from flowing down the staircase and out the door.
For your home office, art should be carefully selected that inspires you and symbolizes your career and ambition. Furthermore, it is important to frame and display anything that symbolizes your accomplishments, such as university degrees or certificates of achievement, alongside the art you’ve chosen.
Finally, the art that you select for your bedroom should also be chosen with careful attention to the principles of Feng Shui. For example, certain shapes and representations in artwork, as well as the colours used to create it, can help attract love and romance in the bedroom! If this is important to you, then be mindful of it.
The practice of Feng Shui also comes into play when choosing what colours you’d like to see in the works of art you display in your home. Colours are thought to symbolize certain feelings or energies, as well as represent particular elements in nature. Which colour scheme you choose for which room will have an impact on the flow of energy in it.
Colours that represent the fire element include red, which symbolizes passion, courage and romance; orange, which signifies being social, open and optimistic; purple, which symbolizes being royal, mysterious and noble and pink, a colour thought to be gentle, soothing and loving. Yellow can also be included under the fire element, though it also aligns with the earth element. It symbolizes sunshine, nourishment and happiness.
Colours that represent the water element are blue, which signifies calm, tranquility and peace as well as black, which represents the infinite, unknown and absorbing.
Symbolizing the wood element are the colours green and brown. Green represents growth, health and overall vibrancy, while brown is the colour of strength, grounding and stability.
Last but not least is the metal element. The primary colour that represents it is grey, which symbolizes being clear, detached and neutral. In addition, white falls under the metal element and represents innocence, freshness and new beginnings.
Prominent artist Jessica Baker creates unique works of art that highlight the principles of Feng Shui and can help bring the colours and symbolism you desire into your home. She is a self-taught painter who feels that art comes more naturally to her than anything else in life. Jessica uses trademark bold colours on her paintings and her desire is to create art that enriches people’s lives.
Whether you’re moving into a new home or looking to add some organization and balance to your current place utilizing Feng Shui, don’t let the prospect of doing so overwhelm you. Knowing the principles and what different colours symbolize can help you position items and choose colours, but don’t add stress to your life by trying to create and follow an idealistic Bagua. It’s not always entirely possible. Rather, focus on the areas you can and the general principles, plus choose what you love and what works for the space and belongings you have.
Colours that represent the water element are blue, which signifies calm, tranquility and peace. baker collection
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Walk of Fire
Resin Art Jessica Baker – Challenge yourself with the ‘Walk of Fire’
To successfully walk across a bed of hot coals is to prove to yourself, that if you can do this – you can achieve anything you put your mind to. Firewalking is a practice which has existed for thousands of years and across many cultures. It demands the walker directly face their fears. They must psyche themselves up and then move quickly across the coals, with the utmost bravery. It is a symbolic act which demonstrates an individual’s courage, inner strength or faith.
Resin Art Jessica Baker – Inspiration & Skill
Jessica Skye Baker has taken this practice as inspiration for her dramatic resin work, ‘Walk of Fire.’ It is a bold piece which translates passion, bravery and steady confidence into a sweeping display of fiery colour. It is a piece which has been painted with intent – strong, powerful and commanding.
Jessica Skye Baker is a very skilled and accomplished resin artist. She knows exactly how to wield her medium. Her decades of painting experience, confidence and energy shine through in this piece.
It comes as no surprise that her artworks have sold worldwide.
Unlike the brisk pace required to complete an actual walk of fire, Jessica’s creation of ‘Walk of Fire’ was a lengthy process. There is no rushing when working with so many layers of resin. Created with vibrant orange, golds and smashes of red, ‘Walk of Fire’ has taken months for resin artist Jessica Skye Baker to complete.
‘Walk of Fire’ is a large, dramatic and bold piece—an impressive two metre wide by one metre tall stretched canvas. It features the signature high-end gloss finish that Jessica Skye Baker is known for.
The process commenced with a mixture of orange acrylic paints laid onto the canvas. Following this, Jessica added multiple fine pours of resin over time. Between each layer of resin, dyes and pigments have been thrown across the surface. Jessica utilises numerous techniques to create a range of unique colour blends. The colours merge and bind with the resin.
To bring added depth and dimension to the work, a fine metallic gold pigment has been scattered across the wet resin of the final pour. As with all of Jessica Skye Baker’s resin works, ‘Walk of Fire’ is a completely unique piece and can never be repeated. It is a careful process filled with passion and skill which results in such mesmerising artworks.
Resin Art Jessica Baker & her Colour Palette
The selective palette of ‘Walk of Fire’, dominated by rich and warm orange and red, offers a wonderfully focussed and unified vision. Calling it ‘burnt orange’ seems especially appropriate. Enriched with a plume of gold and a hint of black, the work is a clear and dramatic statement.
“Orange is brave & adventurous” Baker COLLECTION
Where to hang ‘Walk of Fire’
‘Walk of Fire’ is the perfect hero piece for a boardroom, or uplifting and inviting work for a grand reception area. Whether in a professional space or a private home, this flamboyant painting is sure to demand attention. It is a confident and triumphant piece which will start conversations. Pair it with a minimal contemporary look, or contrast it with beautifully detailed and restored antique furniture. This painting will hold its own.
Feng Shui It
Orange is a brave, adventurous an optimistic colour. In the art of Feng Shui it signifies the social – perfect for stimulating lively and energetic conversations. Orange is warm and out-going. It is inspirational and promotes strength and enthusiasm. Grab a glass of wine and be set for good times as stories and ideas flow under the radiance of ‘Walk of Fire’.
Interpret it as you please. Jessica’s art asks the viewer to engage with it, allow it to inspire them and feel their own connection with it. Seek a personal meaning and don’t be afraid to express yourself. Orange is especially uninhibited.
Take the plunge, dare yourself and allow your investment to be an adventure. Embrace the ‘Walk of Fire’.
You can find Jessica Skye Baker’s work inspiring people in hundreds of homes, hotels and commercial interiors across the world. Her artwork is available for purchase online on the Australian version of The Block Shop, on the Baker Collection website, and for international sales through Saatchi Art.
ne of the Original Australian Resin Artists – Jessica Skye Baker brings ‘Lourdes’
Jessica is an accomplished artist who is recognised as one of the original Australian resin artists. Resin is a medium she found at a young age, and Jessica has spent years perfecting her craft and style. She has sold hundreds of works and her pieces hang in commercial and residential spaces worldwide.
Intense, rich and electric Mediterranean blues make ‘Lourdes’ a magical and captivating artwork. There is no way this painting isn’t going to command attention in any space it is hung.
‘Lourdes’ is an impressive large scale resin painting by Jessica Skye Baker. There are countless spaces where this painting could be hung to great effect. In a clean, minimal and modern space it would be a natural dramatic modern focus. It will complement a contemporary space with a mix of influences or be a beautiful and bold counterpoint in a converted industrial space. An expanse of concrete or brickwork would set the blue of ‘Lourdes’ off very nicely.
How did one of the best Original Australian Resin Artists – Jessica Skye Baker create the resin painting, Lourdes?
Jessica’s resin paintings have a unique depth and character which often invites questions of how they are created. She is a spirited and passionate artist who loves to completely embrace her medium. Her many years of experience with the organic motions of the fluid medium allow her to control the process and also release to the will of the resin.
Initially, the canvas is mapped out—the colour combinations chosen and specific mediums selected. Resin can necessitate a slow process and often individual pieces take months to complete. Her paintings are built up from layers of acrylic paint, inks, pigment and resin, which are allowed to naturally overflow from the edge of the canvas.
This is true for ‘Lourdes’, which has been created with multiple resin pours. Electric blue acrylic was used to cover the entire canvas surface, then embedded in a layer of resin. Pigments and inks were added into and over the resin, followed by more resin poured on top. In the final steps of resin, the colour rises to the surface like a phoenix from the ashes—glorious!
Jessica Skye Baker’s work is unique in its ability to peacefully say nothing, but have the space to say everything.
BAKER collection
It is this layering and depth which invites the viewer in close. Upon each viewing new details and intricacies can be observed. Fine lines, pops of pigment which appear to float, and translucent washes of colour are all frozen within and beneath the glossy surface.
The sheer size of Jessica’s work makes her pieces captivating and enigmatic. As she is one of the original Australian resin artists she has worked for many years from a large studio just outside Melbourne, Australia. The studio is open to the public if you are curious and happen to pass by the area.
Designing your space with ‘Lourdes’
Selecting ‘Lourdes’ for your home or business will add a large bold statement, a daring dash of personality and flair that will be unmissable. The energy and enthusiasm with which the painting was created remains evident on the canvas. Be it a river, the heavens above, the depths of the ocean, or those within—Jessica Skye Baker’s work is unique in its ability to peacefully say nothing, but have the space to say everything.
Similarly, ‘Lourdes’ can take on a powerful role in a strong architecturally designed commercial space with clean lines, or sit in a more subdued way against softer surroundings. It will add luxury against white walls or work to refine a space of textured surfaces, marble floors, leather chesterfield couches, or polished timber furniture.
As with all of Jessica’s pieces, ‘Lourdes’ is a unique and original artwork, that can never be replicated. Investing in it will bring years of pride and pleasure.
Collect your own original by Jessica Skye Baker
The beauty of Jessica’s work is in the eye of the beholder. Bring to it what you will, allow it to speak to you, and to open up your emotions. You as a collector contribute to the meaning of the piece, add to its beauty and get to intertwine your personal story with it. The work comes alive as you view it, find beauty in it and incorporate it into your world.
Jessica’s stunning work can be commissioned to suit the size, colour palette, and mediums you wish. Pieces are available online at The Block Shop, Baker Collection and Saatchi Art.
‘Lourdes’, 120x300cm, artist Jessica Skye Baker. Original resin painting on cotton canvas.
You must be BRAVE in your choices of STYLE and allow your own narratives for artist Nicki Baker-Comelli’s work
Nicki is a passionate creative. Art has been with her all her life thanks to growing up in a very creative household. With her expert industry knowledge and academic art background she is currently working on an abstract series that can inspire the imagination of any age.
There is nothing ‘real’ or ‘concrete’ in Nicki’s acrylic, oil and water colour paintings. Everything is imagined; her use of bold shapes, line and vivid pops of colour have the intention to be interpreted differently by each viewer. Her interactive paintings are full of excitement and boundless energy; they can adorn the walls of kids’ bedrooms, be a conversation starter in a living room or create a high-end designer ambience in many other spaces.
Nicki’s large-scale artworks are the true definition of spontaneous mark making. Her art speaks for itself with bold intention and interior design qualities but it allows the collector total ownership over their own narratives of each piece.
Artist Jessica Skye Baker has demonstrated through countless successful sales both nationally and internationally that her work offers something unique in the art world. Born in 1988, Jessica gravitated towards abstract art as a means of artistic expression. Creating vivid blasts of colour and compositions that combine the organic and inorganic shapes around us, Jessica shares with us her love of art and life. True to her nature she is not bound by any particular medium or style but you can draw connections to her work when you see her bold use of colour and huge scale artworks.
Featured artist on The Block Channel 9 and voted by Bluethumb as one of Australia’s top artists
