At the Table with: Lori Corden

My Mom, a covetable style icon among her peers, children, and friends of children(!) shares her tips for shopping for and styling art.

Sitting at the Art Table with Lori Corden

I owe so much of my artistic ability and creative passion to my mom. She has her BFA and worked as an art teacher for 27 years ranging in ages preK-12. She was my first art teacher, and now she helps me watch my kids so I can continue painting! I asked her to share her favorite prints in my collection along with her best art shopping/placing tips (she has very covetable taste, iykyk) and this is what she said:

Katherine: How do you approach shopping for art?

Lori: If I really like the painting, I just buy it. I don’t necessarily hang it right away, I lean it against the wall and move it around. Sometimes it just stays leaning layered with a photograph or something. It doesn’t have to stay in one place forever, it can travel.

A figure painting leaning on the bedside table in Lori’s cottage.

Katherine: If you were going to hang a large statement piece in your living room, which print would you consider and why?