Over 200 people shared their thoughts in my recent Your Art Opinion questionnaire. The results offer a useful snapshot of how people connect with art in 2025.
Key insights
The findings show strong preferences for visual platforms such as Instagram and Facebook.
We also see a love of bold colour palettes, and a clear interest in commissioning art under the right circumstances.
Transparency, connection with the artist, and emotional impact are recurring themes across responses.
What we discovered
Social media eg Instagram and Facebook is the most common way to discover art.
Preferred colour palettes are fairly evenly split across warm tones, blues and greens, and neutrals.
Shapes and display preferences vary, but natural light and wall displays dominate.
Watching the art-making process is relaxing for most, and sometimes triggers buying impulses.
Many respondents identify as artists or art lovers, with some collectors present.
Commissioning is seen positively but with uncertainty: cost and process clarity matter.
Free-text answers highlight recurring themes: love of colour, scale, variety, transparency, and accessibility.
Colour is a dominant theme. Respondents talk about warm, bold, or natural palettes.
Variety and diversity of art forms are valued, but people want curated and meaningful displays.
Watching the making process evokes calmness and sometimes an interest in purchase.
Transparency is key: cost, process, and expectations around commissioning matter.
Connection with the artist and personal resonance with the work are more important than gallery validation.
Free-text comments insights
Each of the questions had a free text box where respondents could write in the own personal comments. Here’s a selection:
"I like to see the birth of what I buy."
"I have intentionally placed art around my home and property for people to randomly find as they walk around."
"I despair at the amount of crap written about art by galleries, art schools, artists."
"My art is displayed everywhere in my home. Depends on how much light I want on the art. Natural light plays a big factor."
It doesn't matter to me if the artist is famous, I must WANT the art."
"But for me to collect much more I would need more wall space or I would have to get rid of something. For me to remove something from my wall or shelf would mean that I couldn't do with OUT the piece I buy so it really must call to me."
"I will be willing to commission art should I see something I desire."
"I would never commission because a piece has to speak to me, and if the commissioned piece did not speak to me I would be devastated."
"For me it's always love at first sight. No analysis, no reflection. One look and I'm won over!"
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