How to Commission an Abstract Painting for Your Home

The most common thing I hear from people who have been thinking about commissioning a painting is some version of this: “I did not know I was allowed to do that.”

They have admired original art for years. They have a wall that has been waiting for the right piece. They know exactly how they want a room to feel. But somewhere along the way they got the idea that commissions were for corporations, or for people with unlimited budgets, or for collectors who already knew the art world from the inside.

None of that is true. And I want to tell you what commissioning a painting actually looks like — at least the way I do it — so that if you have been sitting on the idea, you can stop sitting on it.

abstract art, interior designGlenyse ThompsonJuly 10, 2026Glenyse Thompson Contemporary Artinteriors, commissionsComment

Collecting Art: What to Look For — And Why the Best Pieces Never Make It to the Website

The best work — the freshest work, the pieces that will matter most in ten years — almost never shows up on a website the way you might expect. It does not sit quietly in an online shop waiting for someone to scroll past it. It moves before that. It sells from the studio floor, from an artist's email list, from a conversation that happened in a room between a person and a painting.

abstract art, interior designGlenyse ThompsonJune 15, 2026Glenyse Thompson Contemporary Artemerging art, second saturday st peteComment