A surreal Rainbow over the ocean at Tunnels Beach in Hawaii.

The Secret of Beach Wall Art: 6 Ways It Brings Your Home to Life

Jim Kober · October 20, 2021

When you’re at home, the chaos of everyday life seems to slow down. Though at times, your mind is still thinking about work, that errand you forgot to run, or any number of things to come. Incorporating beach wall art throughout your home or office touches something pure inside you and provides the calm that we all need to live fully and peacefully. As a result, you thrive in everything from your projects to those simple, beautiful moments with loved ones.

Beach, wave, and ocean art make us feel alive and motivated. The more we feel alive, the more alive our surroundings become. In this article, we’ve compiled six ways this art captures the breathtaking beauty of nature and brings your living space to life.

Let’s jump right in and explore them together.

1. Dr. Ocean

Canvas ocean art scene at sunrise on Hanalei Bay with green mountain backdrop.

Spending the day at the beach provides numerous health benefits. Swimming in the ocean relieves stress, increases muscle strength and endurance, improves skin health, and helps support all kinds of healing. But you don’t need to jump in the water to cash in on the gifts of a coastal environment. The heightened beauty and constant motion of these scenes draw us out of our cyclical thought processes as our attention shifts to the powerful gift of this moment.

Living on the coast or visiting often is not an option for many of us, but that doesn’t mean you can’t reap the psychological benefits. Just as mirror neurons invoke an emotional response when watching a great movie, hanging a calming piece like Hanalei Bay Sunrise in your home or office will help you fully enter the present moment. It is here that the artwork comes alive and grabs the entirety of your soul’s attention, leaving room for nothing but wonder, peace, and awe.

2. Be Still

Turquoise blue ocean swell hitting the beach along Kauai's southside in Hawaii.

Part of the beauty of a piece like Shipwrecks Beach Swell is the captured stillness of the fast-moving waves. This stillness can teach us an important lesson about life—while we engage with the hecticness of our daily schedules, remaining still inside ourselves creates the peace we need to thrive in these busy environments.

Hang this dreamlike image taken off Kauai's famed Shipwrecks Beach in a high traffic area of your home as a reminder that the best parts of life aren't spent moving at 100 miles per hour. You’ve been moving so fast for so long. It's time to slow down and enjoy the richness of life’s simplicity.

3. Open Senses, Open Heart

Beach wall art of huge emerald green waves crashing onto Waimea Beach on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii.

Wave sounds help slow our overstimulated brains down to a natural state of relaxation. With the right set of ears, it’s next to impossible not to hear the crashing waves in Monster Shore Break. Hanging this powerful image caught off the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii, can bring the stress-relieving sound of waves into your home with just a little bit of imagination. You can even set your phone or sound machine to ocean sounds, lock eyes with your beach wall art, and create your own virtual reality.

Some of the most stunning aspects of nature reside in the smallest details. When we open our senses fully, we open our hearts to endless opportunities to appreciate the gift of life.

4. Motivation to Move

As humans, our true home is in nature. In the modern world, it’s a place for us to touch purity, clear our heads, heal, and recharge. Hanging beach wall art like Seaside Cave in your home can be just the motivation you need to get outside and get back in touch with nature. You may not have a seaside cave close by to explore, but there’s undoubtedly awe-inspiring nature well within your reach. Even if you live in a big city, there are surely wonderful parks to explore.

The remarkable power of nature to take your breath away is everywhere. Sometimes all we need is a strong piece of fine art photography to inspire us to head out and find it. It’s time to get outdoors and re-introduce ourselves to the wide-open blue sky. And then do it over and over and over again.

5. Blue Water = Calm

Adding large beach wall art to your home is a one-way ticket to a calmer life. Take the color blue, for instance. Research shows that simply being near shades of blue can create strong feelings of peace and calm.

The turquoise blue waters in Lanikai Beach Twins bring the calm of beach life and the ocean into the comfort of your home. There’s something to be said about taking a beach day without fighting traffic! Topping it all off is the perfectly still morning captured in this piece. It’s a morning that most of us would pay good money to bottle up and enjoy anytime we like. Well, that’s exactly what you’ll have when Lanikai Beach Twins comes to life in your living space.

6. Right Place, Right Time

Sometimes all you need to feel alive is being at home. Whether enjoying time alone or with loved ones, recuperating from the outside world is essential to a balanced life. In Good Life, the two white Adirondack chairs facing the sunset demonstrate the power of great nature art. It’s the kind of image that softly whispers “peace” every time you see it. Why not keep the television off tonight, set up two chairs in front of these Adirondacks, and enjoy the irresistible view? As you feel the stress melt from your shoulders, you’ll be so glad that you did.

We’d Love to Help Bring Your Home to Life

At Latitudes Gallery, helping passionate people like you get away from life’s daily chaos is exactly what drives us. We were lucky enough to bear witness to every scene represented in our photography and then capture them on film with the sincere hope of sharing them to further beautify your living space or office.

Please take the time to browse our full collection to find your next slice of daily wonder.

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