I wish I could say it's because I have kids, but I've always been kind of a cheese ball this way. I like apple prints in the kitchen, restful art in the bedroom. For the bathroom, I've been wondering what kind of water-themed artwork might be out there. Here's a little roundup.
1. Salt Water Cure by Tina Crespo, $18.50
2. WAKE by Phil Jones, $15-$50
3. Sophie Blackall, Face Painter $45
4. High Seas by Sweet William $24





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One important caveat that has nothing to do with aesthetics: art in the bathroom is exposed to large swings in humidity. Anything on paper or canvas is very likely to get damaged and stained from mildew growing on it, so don't put anything valuable in the bathroom. Or, scan a copy of the original to hang, and place the original in an archival folder for storage.
Those prints are gorgeuous, especially the face painter. That said, I'd not put them in a bathroom, because I feel that deco in rooms like the bathrooms should bring some equilibirum. Bathrooms are "water-heavy", so I like to put something that either goes along with it (greenish stuff) or outright opposes it - colors like yellow or orange are much better suited in my opinion.
@home body - I had a small painting on canvas in my old bathroom and it fared fine.
I love the first print, a lot! I like the idea of water themed prints in the bathroom.
I have a frame-turned-chalkboard in my bathroom so I can leave little notes for my other half! No water-damage and it's ever-changing. (you can check it out here: http://bunniesandstripes.blogspot.fr/p/house-tour_1240.html)
I like the first one, Salt Water Cure. I don't know that I'd do water-themed art in the bathroom myself, but if I were going to, it'd probably be #1 that went up on my wall!
I too have prints my my bathroom and they are inches from the shower and no issues.
In another post regarding pics in the bathroom (I think last week) someone posted to make sure to clean the back side of the frames as mold MAY grown. I never thought of that so I'll be checking from now on. Oh, I like #3; Face painter but I think I'd like it better if it were a mermaid. :o)
My partner and I have his-and-hers 3/4 baths joined by a bathtub room all painted a sort of light denim blue. In mine I have a framed nonrepresentational watercolor (with many colors including orange), a Japanese scroll sumi ink painting of cherry blossoms, and a framed lithograph of milkweed pods by my best friend in art school, matted in a greenish blue. In the bathtub room I have an oil on canvas beachscape, and a framed watercolor of a snowy pier. In his bathroom, there is an abstract acrylic and a framed waterfront watercolor in greenish grey shades.
I have hung most of this art in bathrooms for years with no damage at all. I was an Assistant Curator of an art museum in Michigan in my past life, and I do realize the risk, but all of this is either flea market art or local art by friends, not "old masters" so it's my choice to take the risk and have the works where I can enjoy them every day. As long as you have and use proper ventilation fans and leave the doors open for air flow much of the time, and your local climate isn't overly humid on top of that, it can be done. I wouldn't hang a Picasso in the bath, and I wouldn't hang what *I* have there in Florida, but it is working fine for me in NH.
I also have pictures in the bath of my son and dog at the beach or in a pool. I like the water theme, and I LOVE the first pic "Salt Water Cure"!
Maybe I've just always lucked out but I've never experienced this high humidity everyone speaks of in the bathroom. I've had a semi-valuable 1930's lithograph in its original wood frame, with glass, displayed in the bathroom (often times near the shower) for near 10 years and it's mint.
Though I never take hot showers, usually warm/ room temp to cool showers so I'm sure that helps. Exhaust fans, windows, and cracking open the bathroom door.
I think if you regularly have a humid bathroom, to the point that it starts to decay your items, maybe investigate some ventilation options.
Oh, and I LOVE the first print by Isak Denison, a.k.a. Karen Blixen. Just watched Out of Africa for the first time in ages last week, heh.
Would look good in my castaway kitchen.
*quote by Isak Denison, print by Tina Crespo
And I live in Florida....just wanted to see how many times I can post on one topic :p
We're putting up this wallpaper.
Ginnielizz, the link redirects to the main page of anthropologie.
I have a water print in my bathroom. I mean it makes sense.