Feng Shui Artwork

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From paintings and prints to statues and figurines, feng shui artwork promotes auspicious chi adding a sense of peace and beauty while enhancing the ambiance of the environment.

Types of Feng Shui Art

Feng shui art comes in various mediums, genres and styles. For example, paintings may be originals, lithographs or prints. Framed posters, pencil drawings and photographs are types of art as are statues, figurines and stained glass. These are only a few of the many types of artwork you can use in feng shui.

Regardless of the type of art you choose, the subject matter and placement of the artwork is extremely important to ensure each piece draws the free flowing sheng chi into and throughout your home or work space. The use of feng shui art is an excellent way to enhance specific areas of your life. Artwork can also act as a feng shui cure.

Subject Matter and Placement of Feng Shui Art

An essential aspect of using art in feng shui is knowing the correct subject matter and placement of each piece. Used correctly, artwork draws the free flowing positive sheng chi into and throughout your living and work environment.

Many feng shui practitioners use the bagua diagram to determine the correlation of specific areas of their homes to their nine life areas. Practitioners choose and place artwork specifically to enhance a feng shui life. Artwork can also incorporate the five elements and feng shui colors associated with each area.

Feng Shui Art and the Bagua

The following are tips and examples of the kinds of art works that enhance each life area.

Wealth, Prosperity and Abundance

To enhance this life area, pictures or symbols of fish, deer or horses are a wonderful choice. Fish symbolize prosperity, deer are symbols of wealth and horses often depict competition being overcome. Another great choice is artwork that includes bamboo, a wood element symbolizing prosperity and growth.

Fame and Reputation

This life area of fame and reputation also includes your self knowledge, self respect and inner light. It is enhanced with artwork of peaches, butterflies or a phoenix symbolizing a new opportunity. Also helpful in this area are images of horses, symbolizing speed, and snakes for diplomacy.

Relationships, Love and Marriage

Never use images depicting a solitary or lonely figure or animal in the area of your environment that coincides with this life aspect. Pictures are art objects used should be romantic and loving. Excellent choices include a pair of love birds or mandarin ducks, the symbol of double happiness, a phoenix or a dragon.

Health and Family

Symbols of good health include artwork of cranes, deer or peaches. Pictures of pine trees or bamboo also help to enhance this life area.

The Center: Health and Balance

Located in the center, as all life areas relate to it. The yin yang symbol represents this area of the bagua. Peaceful images of beautiful flowers, baskets of fruit and candles are good choices for this life aspect.

Images to enhance this area from Feng Shui for Us
Basket of fruit

Children and Creativity

This life area symbolizes both your children and the birth of your own joy and spirit of life. Images rich with imagination and creativity are excellent additions to this area. Playful dolphins, happy free horses or pictures of chrysanthemums are all an excellent choice. Artwork placed in children’s rooms should always be happy and uplifting, evoking feelings of confidence, inspiration and encouragement.

Knowledge, Skills and Self Cultivation

Enhance this life area with images of mountains, symbolizing your growth of spiritual awareness. Hanging a picture or a placing a statue of a dragon carp or the addition of crystal artwork also brings auspicious chi to this life area.

Career and Life Path

Hang mountain paintings behind the desk area and pictures of water or fields of flowers in front of it. Mountain pictures should not contain a great amount of water in the scene and the peaks should be solid and strong not craggy. Paintings of fish also bring auspicious energy into this life area.

Helpful People, Mentors, Friendship and Travel

Works of art that show happy people or happy occasions are the best choice for this area of the home. Images of gods, angels or strong powerful people work well in this area.