Environmental Art: Think and feel better with wood on the wall

Check out the hottest new way to add the luxury and beauty of wood to your space! Hang it on the wall!

As the health and wellness benefits of bringing nature indoors become more evident every day, people are searching for exciting new ways to add wood to homes and offices. Surfaces have long been the go-to method, with a beautiful table, bar or other usable horizontal expanse, but there is a new way to embrace the benefits of biophilia! Add the most beautiful piece of nature to your art collection and put it on the wall! The undeniable beauty of the tree deserves to be a part of even the most precious art collection.

 Full thickness slab wood applied as environmental art in business and hospitality spaces can significantly enhance the overall atmosphere as well as boost productivity. Biophilic elements create a more inviting, productive, and sustainable environment whether used in a work setting or a customer space. By incorporating nature into spaces, businesses can improve customer and employee well-being, enhance brand image, and create a healthier, more inspiring place to work. Wood as a focal point creates that welcoming waiting area that is crucial for creating a positive first impression on clients and fostering a comfortable experience for visitor.  Businesses can significantly improve the overall customer experience and foster a positive reputation that will increase retention of clientele. (Learn more about how CS Woods can improve your business.)

So, we want to help you hang it on the wall!  Our open showroom warehouse walls are covered in inspiration.  Our sales team can help guide you through the process of choosing the right pieces of wood to join or start your art collection. If you have a specific space you are seeking to fill, they can help match sizes, color tones and aesthetic. This is a personal journey that reflects your taste and interests. We want to help you find that piece of natural art that evokes emotions or resonates with you. Our extensive selection ensures that you can find wood to become art that complements your existing décor or acts as a statement piece. Properly cared for, the wood you choose has the same potential to increase in value in your collection just like traditional art.

Wood has the added step of finishing choice, similar to choosing a frame. Finish choice allows you to really curate the natural aesthetic you want to bring into your space. A more rustic and unfinished look can evoke a feeling of authenticity and clarity, while a finished surface becomes more visually grounding, powerful, thoughtful and sensual. Wood with a CS Woods finish is tactilely pleasing, and very petable, combining the visual grounding with the smooth warmth only offered by wood. Wood has an inherent natural warmth and beauty that other materials often struggle to match. Its rich tones, textures, and variations in grain add visual interest and create that sense of comfort and connection to nature. Wood is a touchable art, adding a unique quality into your environment and offering a centering touchstone.

Studies suggest that exposure to natural elements like wood can have positive psychological effects. The natural warmth and beauty of wood can contribute to feelings of relaxation, reduced stress, and improved overall well-being. These benefits are strengthened by the addition of using it as art in your space. Wood as art will enhance your well-being, and connection  with the world around you. It's an investment in your happiness and a way to surround yourself with beauty and inspiration.

As with traditional art, we can help you with mounting hardware and lighting recommendations. Invisible brackets allow the art to be showcased without visible support, just like you were hanging a painting on a wall. The surprise of seeing a piece of a tree displayed in this way is fun to see visitors delight in. Cleverly placed track lighting can highlight grain patterns and bring enhanced depth.

Wood is a surprisingly durable material, especially when properly cared for, and is almost maintenance free. CS Woods can guide you in long term care and preservation of your selected piece, making sure that you have the right polishes and cleaners to use in the event you require them.

Environmental art is a burgeoning, evolving art movement using the sustainable natural environment as a platform for creative expression. It can blur the lines between art, activism, and science. By incorporating wood thoughtfully into your space, you can create a warm, inviting, and stylish environment that promotes well-being and offers lasting value. At CS Woods, we work almost exclusively with a raw material from nature, crafting it to be both functional and beautiful. The tree is our passion and inspiration, and our relationship with trees includes honoring their ecological past and investing in their preservation as an environmental cornerstone. Humans have always used art to connect with nature, from the cave paintings of trees and lightning to landscape painting to the in-Situ movement. Environmental art takes this need to connect further through the use of nature’s raw material as the medium.  As we continue to grow in our appreciation and age, we are more and more moved into conservation and encouraging appreciation of this medium.  Bringing a piece of carefully crafted wood into your space raises awareness and strengthens your bond with nature. It encourages citizen participation in its protection, promoting conservation.

The tree reaches up through our world to spread wide. Bringing with it both a grounding in space and a optimism for each day. They bring us joy, shade and strength. This power is preserved when they are sustainably harvested, their story intact, and placed in an indoor space by CS Woods. We have placed these biophilic bastions as gorgeous workhorse surfaces in our daily lives in homes and businesses for years, and are excited to continue to do so, but there is a new trend we are experiencing. The admiration for wood is growing, and we are seeing that evolve into a trend of true art appreciation. By adding wood to our space in a vertical “hang it on the wall” approach, we bring to fruition a visual reminder of our own value and commitments: carbon sequestration, health and wellness, natural visual stimulation, and value placed on the natural world. 

CS Woods has worked to elevate the shopping experience for woodworkers and their clients for years through making the process of choosing just the right slabs for your project a personal one. Our sales team matches multiple options to your project, provides layouts that clients can walk around, touch and really fall in love with. Hand selection, either in-person or through video and email is our business model. Already similar to shopping for art, we have elevated that experience by providing our clients with walls of wood art, just ready to be part of their collection.

Through CS Woods environmental art, you can bring the harmony of nature into your daily life. The beauty encouraging you to take care of it, as well as yourself.