Purple Wall Art Prints

Purple is the colour this catalogue keeps returning to, and it is the one that does the most work in a nursery. This page gathers the lilac, lavender and violet watercolours in one place: hydrangea sets painted in dusty violet, purple tulips on a plain ground, honeybee and wildflower studies where lavender sprigs and red clover carry the colour, and the abstract peony paintings where lilac bleeds into blush.

The other half of the page is personalised. A large share of the purple work here is nursery name art, a child's name set into watercolour florals and sold as sets of two and three, in lilac and lavender rather than the pink most girl nurseries default to. If you have been looking for a purple that reads soft rather than saccharine, that is the part worth scrolling to.

Every print is my own watercolour painting, printed to order on heavy matte archival paper, unframed, in seven sizes from 5x7 in (13x18 cm) up to 16x20 in (40x50 cm).

What colours go with purple wall art?

Match the undertone before anything else. Cool lilacs and periwinkles sit naturally beside sage and eucalyptus greens, warm greys and pale oak. Warmer mauves and dusty violets want cream, camel and terracotta instead, and turn muddy against a cool grey wall. If you are not sure which one you have, hold the print beside a sheet of white paper: cool purples throw a blue shadow, warm ones throw a pink one.

Is purple too much for a nursery?

Not at the strengths used here. These are washed, greyed purples, closer to a dried hydrangea than a grape. Used as the accent across two or three prints above a cot or a dresser, with the walls left white or oatmeal, purple reads calmer than the same amount of pink and it carries further past the toddler years.

How many purple prints should hang together?

Three is the reliable number above a cot or a console, two above a bed where you want breathing room either side. Keep them the same size and the same distance apart, roughly 5 to 8 cm (2 to 3 in) between frames, and let the artwork be the thing that varies.

If purple is not quite the shade you are after, Green Wall Art Prints covers sage and eucalyptus, Blue Wall Art Prints covers navy and coastal, and Blush Pink Wall Art Prints is the warmer neighbour to lilac. For the personalised name prints on their own, see Nursery and Kids Room.