Spring 2025 collection

Area Environments is a creative studio that curates original artwork from contemporary artists to produce exclusive wallpapers and large scale murals. Founded in 2012 out of a shared adoration for fine art, Area’s unique and collaborative approach to creating wallcoverings continues to be fueled by this passion, alongside our obsession with quality and our desire to challenge the link between art and environment.

Our participating artists are from all over the world, and we consider them our partners. Their wide-ranging artistic voices, stories, and talents have allowed us to build consistently compelling collections, and we are grateful to them for the opportunity. We honor their work by maintaining the originality of their art as well as by compensating them with a portion of each sale.

Area is committed to selecting art that inspires the creative process, delivering unparalleled service, and surprising and delighting all who work with us.


Spring 2025 Artists

For Tricia French, art is a union and center-point for many forms of beauty. Art is a guiding light, holding and connecting to deeper recesses of experience while offering an unmatched ability to lead a viewer to the abstract world of emotion.

Tricia is currently based in the Pacific Northwest where there is no shortage of emotive skies, contrasted light and evocative landscapes. Painting on a large scale, she seeks to offer an encounter that feels both expansive and encompassing.

Kim Christopher is an experienced abstract artist based in the United States. Her artistic journey has been profoundly shaped by her fascination with the ethereal and the ever-changing beauty of nature. From a young age, she found solace and self-expression in the world of art, channeling her creativity through drawing, painting, and positive affirmations. Kim has developed a process that allows her to connect to the art with purpose and emotion. She uses acrylic, oil, texture, and often other mediums, she invites viewers into a dreamlike realm, where the ethereal and the organic seamlessly merge.

Chanell Joy Pinkney is a multi-disciplinary artist, photographer, wife, and mother based in Jacksonville, Florida. Using natural sources, such as rocks, sand, limestone, and soil, Chanell creates pigments for natural paint making. Her work explores the necessary connection humans have with nature and the ultimate role this connection plays on our emotional well-being. Through her use of texture, quiet compositions, and neutral color palettes, Chanell attempts to capture on canvas the lessons of resilience nature can teach us as we navigate turbulent times.

Thomas Gouws, a South African-born abstract artist and architect, earned his degree from the University of Pretoria in 1996. After founding an architectural practice in 2002 and collaborating on award-winning projects with his wife, Sureen, the couple moved to Australia in 2018. Settling first on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula and later in Brisbane, Thomas paused his architectural career to focus on painting and sculpture, blending architectural influences with abstract expression. Now balancing both fields, he continues to draw inspiration from their creative intersection.

Hyun Joung Lee creates rhythmic, organic patterns on handmade Hanji paper, a traditional Korean material crafted from mulberry tree bark. Embracing the paper’s natural texture, Lee uses intuitive, unplanned body movements to form flowing lines she calls “paths,” symbolizing personal journeys and moments in time. Her works, often resembling landscapes like forests, dunes, or waterscapes, invite viewers to explore their own memories and inner worlds. Rooted in patience and care, Lee's process mirrors the meticulous craftsmanship of Hanji itself, connecting ancient tradition with contemporary artistic expression.

Lifelong Minnesota resident, Colleen Cosgrove studied Illustration at the College of Visual Arts in St. Paul. Colleen spent many years working various corporate graphic art jobs while simultaneously pursuing her fine art practice. In 2017 she left the corporate world and dedicated herself full time to her painting, expanding her skills and growing her presence in the arts community. Being an artist is not only her profession, but her calling, she continues to learn, finding new paths to explore, and pushing her creative limits.

Loren Chantland is a self-taught artist with over 40 years of experience, specializing in paintings of expansive skies and dramatic clouds, inspired by his rural Iowa upbringing. His work reflects a restless, ever-searching mind, constantly evolving stylistically. Loren’s art has earned national recognition and taken him from Dubai to Hawaii. After years of travel, he now paints from his quiet family farm, once again surrounded by the vast skies he has always loved.

After spending many years at menial jobs, Doug Glovaski decided to make his dream of being an artist come true. He set up a small drafting table in his tiny apartment and began making abstract drawings with pastels on paper. Landing his first gallery representation at 36, Doug has joined several galleries across the country over the years with many solo and group shows.

Doug’s work is now collected by several institutional, corporate, and private collections, including the Fogg Museum at Harvard University, the Achenbach Collection at The Palace Legion of Honor San Francisco, the San Jose Museum, the de Saissett Museum in Santa Clara, CA, the Crocker Museum in Sacramento, CA, and others.

Gabe Fonorow describes his monochromatic work as a study of systems, processes, repetition, and endurance. He begins each of his charcoal-and-ink artworks much like a piece of music, giving them a set of rules or a central concept that are subject to change with the emergence of unpredictable elements. Although his process is influenced a great deal by his musical background, he is only able to work in silence, stating, "The sound and rhythm of the pen moving across the paper is an integral part of my work... the aural aspect of my process is essential to the results on the page."

Michelle Glanville is an artist known for creating custom pet and home portraits that bring calm and comfort to viewers. Inspired by her childhood love of art, she started Custom Keepsake Drawings in 2018, celebrating pets, spaces, and memories through ink and watercolor. Based in Minneapolis, Michelle draws inspiration from the city’s mix of urban and natural landscapes, working in various media to add texture and depth to her pieces. She lives in Northeast Minneapolis with her husband, son, and dog.

What our clients are saying

“I am so proud to sell Area Environments wallcoverings to my clients! People are the key to a great company and that saying couldn’t be more accurate in the case of Area Environments. Everyone working at Area is dedicated to creating a stunning product that is of the highest quality and delivered at warp speed! From the minute a quote is requested, the process is quick, personalized and focused on ensuring a seamless and fantastic experience from start to finish. Thank you, Area Environments, for making it so easy to sell your unique and gorgeous murals!”

Lisa Rigdon Schmidt - Carter, Inc. Denver, CO

We LOVE working with Area Environments: the product is hip and new – nothing is like it on the marketplace.

Their collaboration with artists brings together intersection of art and design in a way that our industry has long dreamt, but not realized. That is, until Area Environments commenced their collaborations with artists from around the globe.

Not only is the product cool, but also the entire team’s philosophy is “yes, and…”: Looking to provide the very best service – that combined with the best product makes for an inspiring time throughout the sales process.”

Thomas Lavin - Thomas Lavin Los Angeles, CA

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