Artelier's art consultants present you with a hand-selected group of contemporary artists working with gold leaf, whose innovative art styles are being sought after by interior design professionals worldwide.
For centuries, gold has been treasured by ancient civilisations across the world, from the Egyptian Pharos who coated their coffins in gold to the Aztecs who believed gold was an excrement of the Gods. Gold is inherently an element with high durability and malleability making it a nearly indestructible mineral and thus an object of high value and symbol of luxury. It's the perfect artistic medium for interior designers and buyers looking for long-lasting options for a hotel, corporate, residential, yacht, aircraft or interior space. In this article, we will follow this river of gold through a multitude of contemporary artists.
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Our art advisors at Artelier Art Consultancy have decades of industry experience sourcing the most sophisticated, price-friendly artworks for you to decorate your hotel, residential, corporate art design or yacht interior. This article showcases a hand-picked selection of those working in gold leaf art, bring a spark of light and fresh design to your interior design space. From artists who create golden landscape murals for yachts to printing maps coated with gold pigments for corporate offices, there is a gold leaf artwork for everyone.
If you’re searching for a contemporary large wall piece to energise your office space or a subtle feature piece to crown your home interior design, we can help. Reach out for a consultation. Artelier's art advisory team will craft a personalised portfolio for your art collection.
Gustav Klimt
This notorious Austrian painter is known for his ‘golden phase’ towards the end of his career. Klimt used gold leaf to achieve a decorative surface texture and shimmering expanse of golden backgrounds like an otherworldly portal for his floating figures. Using it in excess, his figures were swathed in light from the reflection of gold leaf, heightening their status. Many contemporary artists take inspiration from gold leaf masters like Klimt, including some prolific gold wall art artists today.
1. Gold Art Paintings
This artist's abstract landscape paintings capture the awe of experiencing the vastness of our natural open environment within expressive layers of paint. To create these paintings, she taps into centuries-old artists’ techniques by grounding natural earth pigments by hand, combined with organic nut extracts, lavender oils and shell gold. Her work captures the essence of our natural world through vivid colours and expressive mark-making, placing a veil of gold pigments as the finishing touch.
Do you love this artist’s work? To fully appreciate the subtle qualities of each artwork, the artist has produced a small selection of sample artworks for our art consultancy to check she's right for you – available to loan on request.
2. Bas Relief: Gold Leaf
One of our 'Artist Wall' artists utilises the indulgence of gold leaf in his artworks, covering the expanse of his wall installations like a halo celebrating the glory and beauty of nature’s organic forms and patterns. The gold leaf gilding shines off the undulating form of expertly carved wood like ripples of water or peaks of mountains. The artist’s spectacular relief sculptures mimic the same energetic and physical process of carving itself. We find ourselves swept up in the sea of gold, influenced by the therapeutic rhythm of the pattern and left silently in quiet contemplation of a glowing metallic cloud. These artworks bring an active energy to the body and soul, perfectly suited to a location of exercise or a meditative room of rest.
This artist’s wall mural artworks capture the lustre of gold, her delicate application of gold, sometimes silver and platinum leaf reflects a peaceful and calm intention. With closer inspection, her artworks are composed of a spectrum of fragmented shapes and expressive lines combined to form landscape panoramas. The tranquillity of this art style is perfect for an intimate interior private or public setting, this artist has experience in creating large wall murals for superyacht projects.
If you’re contemplating what artwork to display in your interior, consider requesting a consultation with Artelier.
This artist’s spectacular abstract metal wall art conveys a sense of natural flow and movement, with layer of gold foil painting on top of the initial canvas, giving the impression from a river’s journey from spring to ocean. The precious golden metal flecks dance over the canvas like stars in the night sky. This artist works with natural materials like clay, earth pigments, crushed minerals, oil paints and patinated silver leaf. This closeness with material demonstrates the artist’s connection to the earth, revealing gold deposits as trapped in geological folds within the earth’s crust. Through a timeless subject such as our planet Earth, this artist demonstrates a modern application of gold leaf from an ancient technique. This art style would be perfect as a fantastic feature wall in an office space to create mindful reflection and collaborative motivation.
5. Printmaking with Gold Leaf
Another one of our 'Artist Wall' artists is inspired by the combination of design, human activity and nature in geographical maps. The use of gold in his designs recognises the long history of applying gold leaf to documents of worth like manuscripts. Providing a bird’s eye view of the man-made metropolis, his work transcends the factual documentation and becomes an abstract pattern like microbiological cells. An artwork style like this creates an energised rhythm suitable for a corporate office space or hotel lobby space.
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From contemporary carved abstract wall sculptures to dazzling golden-painted murals, our art curators will work with you to hand-select a suitable artwork for your project. Our art consultants at Artelier have decades rs of experience with sourcing artworks for corporate, exhibition, public art and residential spaces, handling all the logistics, including framing and installation. We're passionate about creating a long-lasting legacy for your project, with all team members working towards bringing the client's artistic visions to life.
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