But you should consider going with a different wall. Art above a mantel looks best is no wider than the firebox opening below it and no taller than the window/doors in the room. Besides, it is competing with the big cabinet on the left and is crammed in a corner without enough room to showcase it properly. If that is a portable FP, maybe it should move to a focal point location.

Can we see some photos that give us the sense of the entire space? I am having a hard time visualizing it. Pics would really help.

Beautiful painting. That said, how about taking away the vase and sticks from the floor corner? Put a small ivy plant on the mantel on the window side and put a tallish candle on the other side....nothing else. OR maybe without the vase, how about a tallish plant on the floor where the vase is now and then on the mantle put a candle on each side of the painting.....one tall and one shortish.

I agree with deco on this. If moving it to another location simply isn't an option, don't add anything else on the mantel.

I wouldn't put anything on the mantel.

An artwork should be about 2/3 the size of the fire surround and mantel over which it hangs. Art above mental will look good if its wider.

The fireplace area is full. Nothing more is needed. (I'm a minimalist and I'd take stuff away.)

Nothing. Don't squash the vase in there alongside either. Pull it out to front/side, or get rid of it : ) entirely.

I agree with the others that the painting is wonderful but it's not in a position that does it justice jammed into the corner like that and looking out of proportion with the fireplace. I mean it's almost as large as your windows.

I'd find another place to hang it and look for something else for over the fireplace.

If you can't move it, then do nothing. I would move the vase that's jammed into the corner too. To really appreciate an object, it needs some room to breathe.

Your beautiful work of art needs to be grounded and the white below it is what has to be corrected. Can you paint it a darker color? For ideas, get any darker fabric and hold it over the white, step back and see the difference. It would settle the problem and an easy fix, nothing else is needed.

I love, love that painting too. The only thing I would do is place small accessories under the painting 2 small plants bushes from Ross or TJ Maxx. Just not to many or it'll look to busy. Coming from another artist, that's a really good landscape.

I agree that the whiteness of the fireplace isn't doing the painting any favors, but if that's not changeable and you want to leave the painting there, I'd hang it a few inches higher. I'm usually telling folks to lower their art, but since your painting is filling that whole space, I'd hang it higher so there is a bit more wall showing below. I'd probably divide that upper wall space in two and hang it that distance (like if there is 6" of wall above - below the beam- then I'd raise the art 3"). To see how it would look without making more holes, just balance it on something setting on the mantel (like a couple cans of food) and see how it looks a bit higher.

If you want to go custom, you could actually build an overmantel up to the ceiling and have the painting built into it so that it would be framed and be part of something larger. That would help bring it into scale with the fp.

This is too traditional for your space but just to give you an idea...

I wouldn't put anything on the edges of your mantel. Just curious, is your fireplace an electric fireplace that is movable?

Thank you all for the great ideas!! I appreciate you taking the time to share.

Beverly, I think you're onto something. It's counterintuitive to make it even bigger, but it works.

It will also makes it look like permanent art instead of a poster. Give that picture some respect and frame it! :)

Does anyone agree with me that the FP looks like it may be portable (built-in hearth for example?) That painting will be expensive to frame, though it does look better framed with the FP. Moving it and leaving unframed may be a less expensive option.

I've been an artist for 45yrs. This is an intensely, well painted landscape, that fits the room perfect. I say leave well enough alone. Critiquing it to death will make matters worst. Let's just look at it as if it were a painting by the British painter John Constable.

Let's leave well enough alone.

I like it. Is that a painting or a canvas photo?

I don't think I would put anything on the mantle but I would find a vase or bottle a color from the art on the hearth in front, your vase is close, but I think maybe less white

Beverly nailed it. Frame it and get rid of the vase on the right.

I would definitely hang it higher, and it does look good framed. Either way, get rid of the floor vase. Is it possible to move that brown furniture on the left away from the fireplace? The fireplace needs breathing room, as much as possible, if you can't move it. Moving the picture up is the most important consideration. The mantel does not need any other decoration.

The fireplace appears to be movable. Is there somewhere else in the room it could go so it and the beautiful painting aren’t crammed in a corner with a larger piece of furniture so close? Photos of the rest of the room would be nice