How to Mix and Match Art Prints: Colour, Style and Size Guide

Filling a wall with a single framed print is easy. Filling it with several prints that actually work together is where most people get stuck. Mixing and matching art prints is one of the most effective ways to create a wall that feels curated rather than an afterthought, but it does help to have a system. Here is how to combine colour, style and size so your wall art UK collection looks intentional, whichever room you are decorating.

Start with a Colour Thread

The simplest way to make different art prints feel like they belong together is to give them one shared colour. It does not need to be identical — a sage green border on one print and a muted olive background on another will read as connected. Choose two or three colours from your existing furniture, cushions or walls and look for art prints UK that echo them. This is why our botanical and floral collections work so well together: the palettes are drawn from the same soft, natural tones, so pairing a pink floral with a cream botanical print feels effortless rather than accidental.

William Morris Floral Set of Two Art Prints — available in sizes A5 to A1

Mixing Patterns Without Clashing

Pattern-on-pattern can look wonderful, but it works best when one print takes the lead and the others support it. If you are hanging a bold, busy design like a William Morris archive print, balance it with a plainer companion piece in a similar colourway rather than two equally busy patterns side by side. Set of two art prints are an easy shortcut here, since they are pre-paired by a designer and already share a palette and mood — take a lot of the guesswork out of building a gallery wall from scratch.

Henri Matisse Female Portraits Set of Two Art Prints — available in sizes A5 to A1

Mixing Styles: Modern with Vintage, Bold with Botanical

A wall of only one style can feel flat, even if every piece is beautiful. The most interesting walls usually pair something graphic or modern — a Bauhaus shape, a bold typographic quote — with something softer, like a botanical or floral study. The contrast is what makes each piece stand out rather than blur together. If you already own a strong statement print, look for a quieter companion in a complementary colour instead of another loud piece competing for attention.

Peach and Green William Morris Set of Two Art Prints — available in sizes A5 to A1

Playing with Size and Scale

Varying your sizes creates rhythm on a wall in a way that uniform framing never quite achieves. A large A1 print as an anchor piece, flanked by a pair of A4s or A3s, gives the eye somewhere to land before it wanders to the smaller details. Because every design in our shop is available from A5 up to A1, you can take a print you love and scale it to whatever role it needs to play — anchor, accent or filler — without switching designs halfway through a display.

A general rule: let one size dominate (usually the largest piece), and use one or two smaller sizes to support it. Avoid three or four prints that are all exactly the same size unless you are deliberately going for a strict grid layout, which is its own distinct look.

Building the Layout

Before committing to hooks and nails, lay your chosen prints out on the floor first. Group by colour, then check the balance of pattern versus plain, and finally check your size mix. It is much easier to swap a print out at this stage than after it is framed and mounted. For ready-made pairings that take the planning out of the process entirely, our gallery wall sets are designed specifically to be hung together, with colour and composition already balanced for you.

All of our designs are produced using giclée printing on 250gsm museum-grade paper, so even prints from different collections will have a matching finish and quality when hung side by side — one less variable to worry about when you are mixing and matching.

Where to Start

If you are building a wall from scratch, begin with a set you already love and build outward one print at a time, checking colour, pattern and scale at each step. Browse our botanical prints for an easy, cohesive palette to mix and match, or explore the full range in all prints to start building your own gallery wall today.