Wine Cellar Art: Murals & Paintings

Adding touches of art to your wine cellar can enhance not only your experience retrieving wines or managing your inventory by making your cellar a more welcoming place. But art can also help you create a tasting room or a special space where you may bring valued guests to share your wine enthusiasm. Art may also help increase your property's value.

One of the first things many wine cellar owners think of when considering art is wall art, namely framed paintings and possibly murals. This is a good place to begin.

Paintings may be selected from a variety of sources, depending on your particular decorating style. You can contact local artists, visit art galleries, or even enlist the aid of an interior designer. You can also buy framed art reproductions online from art outlets such as Art.com or from art museums or galleries.

If you are looking for wine themed art, your options may be more restricted. One artist, Linda Paul, offers a variety of original wine paintings and canvas art prints. She captures the alure of wine bottles, wine glasses, and even wine and cheese in a variety of still life compositions. She also is able to bring the Tuscan wine country to your wine cellar through a variety of still life and landscape concepts. Paul's paintings are unique in that she uses layers of egg tempera made from finely ground stones (lapis lazuli, malachite, and a variety of ochers) from ancient mines in Europe and bound together with egg yolk. This is an ancient form of making paint and will last for centuries. Her wine prints are crafted with archival inks on canvas and are reproductions of her original egg tempera art. They are numbered and hand signed. (There are only 500 of each print made.)