For the environments that carry your days
Paintspace commissions floating framed original paintings for homes, executive workplaces and hospitality spaces, each one created by Nicholas Girling for a specific wall, room and environment.
Based in Melbourne, we work with clients across Australia and Oceania.
Most artwork is chosen after a space is complete, found somewhere else, carried in, and asked to fit. Paintspace works in the other direction.
We start inside your environment: its proportions, its sightlines, the way daylight crosses it at four in the afternoon. From that understanding we define an artistic direction, and commission an original painting for that exact place. The consultancy is the service. The painting is the outcome.
Recognition
Most Paintspace commissions begin in one of these four environments. Yours may be a fifth, the method holds wherever a wall matters.
Private homes · display homes · residential developments
A living room where everything defers to one wall. A hallway you pass twenty times a day without once looking up. A painting made for that wall, its width, its evening light, finishes the argument the architecture started.
Begin with a homeA commissioned painting is measured before it is imagined.
Offices · executive floors · member spaces · professional practices
The boardroom does the talking; the wall behind it says nothing yet. A work commissioned for a workplace sets the register of the room, what the organisation believes about itself, said once, in paint.
Begin with a workplaceScale is not a size. It is a relationship.
Healthcare · aged care · education · organisational and shared environments
In a waiting room, a corridor, a common room, a painting keeps people company. These are the environments where hours are spent, not passed, and where a work made for the room earns its place every single day.
Begin with a shared environmentEvery room already has a point of view. We listen to it first.
Hotels · motels · restaurants · retreats · guest-facing interiors
Guests forget most rooms by the airport. They remember the room that had a point of view. A painting commissioned for a foyer, a dining room, or a suite gives the stay a centre, something no other property has, because it was made for this one.
Begin with a guest environmentThe method
The site narrows here on purpose. The environments above are wide; the method that answers them is exact.
We meet you and the environment, through drawings, photographs, and the way the space is actually used. The ambition you hold for the room is part of the brief.
We establish what the room asks for: proportion, viewing distance, the pressure of the palette already present, the mood the space should hold at its busiest and its quietest hour.
We put forward an artistic direction for the future painting, scale, tonal weight, and intent, before anything is painted. You respond to a direction, not a fait accompli.
The painting is made for its intended wall, not adapted to it afterwards. The room's measurements stay in the studio for the life of the work.
A large-format framed canvas arrives ready to install. The room closes its last open question.
Every movement exists to protect one thing: a painting that could not have been made for any other room.
Start at movement oneEvidence
Notice the order of this site: environment, consultancy, method, and only now, paint. That is the order every commission keeps. What follows is not a selection to choose from; it is proof of what the method produces.
Current Paintspace commissions are large-format framed canvases, supplied ready to install. Scale is set by the wall, framing by the room, palette by the light the room actually receives.
No two commissions can be interchanged, because no two environments can.
Do you work with homeowners as well as commercial spaces?
Yes, Paintspace commissions are suitable for residential, executive workplaces, hospitality and shared environments.
Do I need to know exactly what I want before enquiring?
No. Most commissions begin with the room itself, the wall, scale, light and the feeling you want the space to hold. Nicholas then develops the work in his own painterly style, tailored to suit the environment.
Do you work outside Melbourne?
Yes. Projects can begin remotely using photographs, plans and dimensions. Art can be framed more local to you to avoid shipping fees - we can ship via a tracked tube to your framer.
Ask what your wall could holdThe painter
Paintspace is Nicholas’s commissioned art consultancy practice, focused on original paintings created for specific environments. He is also co-owner of Printspace, a Melbourne fine art print business representing his wider body of work.
His experience spans individual clients, residential projects, workplaces and commercial environments, bringing together an artist’s hand with a strong understanding of scale, presentation and the role a painting plays within a finished space.
To explore more of Nicholas’s painting practice, available works and artistic background, visit his artist website www.nicholasgirling.com.
Conversation
Tell us about the environment, where it is, what it holds, and what remains unresolved. The first conversation is exactly that: a conversation about your space and what could be commissioned for it.
Enquiries come straight to Paintspace in Melbourne. Nothing is set in motion until you decide it should be.
Commissions vary by scale and scope. Most floating framed original paintings range from $1,250 to $4,700 AUD, depending on size, materials and framing. Please enquire for a tailored proposal.
Paintspace commissions are managed directly with Nicholas Girling. To begin a conversation about your space, please use the enquiry form on Nicholas Girling’s artist website.
It’s helpful to include a few details about the room, approximate wall dimensions, your location, and whether the project is residential, workplace, hospitality or care-related.