Works that transform a room: High-impact art under €5,000
Pieces that shape a space
Certain artworks have the ability to shift the atmosphere of a room the moment they enter it. Not because they shout for attention, but because they add something you feel every day, a sense of calm, energy, depth, or simply a moment of visual clarity. At Root Gallery, we regularly see how a single piece under €5,000 can have the same presence as a much larger investment.
For emerging artists and photographers, this price range is often where their strongest, most personal works can be found. These are not “entry-level” pieces, but artworks that hold their ground: large formats, strong compositions, layered techniques, and materials that elevate a space.
Below we highlight a selection of works that offer this kind of impact. Each of them, in its own way, can redefine the character of a living space, office, or studio, not only visually, but emotionally.
By Vera Klaus
150 × 120 cm, 2025
Mixed media on cotton, framed
Vera Klaus creates vibrant and dynamic compositions using diverse materials, including spray paint, acrylic, and chalk. Inspired by music, she channels its flow to evoke joy and positive emotions, seamlessly translating her happiness into her art. Through evocative titles, she enhances the uplifting energy of her works, inviting viewers to share in her inspiration. Everyday moments - like sunlight on your skin, blooming fields, or warm encounters - fuel her creativity, grounding her art in the beauty of the present. Each painting becomes a tangible expression of these fleeting yet profound experiences, radiating a sense of connection and vitality.
Personal delivery and installation within the Netherlands and Belgium are included with this work.
The power of scale and colour
Large-scale works under €5.000 are rare, but when they appear, they tend to transform a room immediately. Vera Klaus’ Entdeckungstour is a clear example: a painting that radiates physical energy without overwhelming the viewer. Her use of mixed media, movement and joyful colour opens up a space. even in rooms with minimal daylight or quiet interiors.
Donald Schenkel’s paintings do something entirely different. Works like Troika or Distortions shift the mood of a room through subtler means: colour transitions, depth and a sense of visual stillness. Whether painted in countless translucent layers or created in a single wet-on-wet gesture, they hold a presence you feel every time you walk past.
By Donald Schenkel
Oil on canvas
140 × 80 cm, 2025
Wooden frame included
Part of Donald Schenkel’s Real World Renders series, Distortions explores the tension between control and unpredictability. Painted in a single wet-on-wet layer, several gradients are blended at once; merging, colliding, and transforming into unexpected harmonies.
Referencing both market distortions and the instability of life itself, the work reflects Schenkel’s ongoing fascination with how material and light can shape perception. What seems digital from afar reveals, up close, the delicate traces of oil paint, reminding us that beauty often lies in the balance between precision and chance.
Delivery within the Netherlands and Belgium is arranged in consultation, either in person or securely shipped.
Photography with sculptural weight
In the realm of photography, few works carry as much spatial impact as the pieces from Jan Theun van Rees’ Painted Room series. These are not simple photographs, they are built environments, constructed by hand, shaped by light, and dismantled afterwards. What remains is an image that feels architectural and intimate at the same time.
The works have a quiet, sculptural quality: they draw you in through depth, shadow and the sense that you are entering a space rather than looking at one. In interiors with clean lines or natural materials, his pieces often become an anchor point.
By Jan Theun van Rees
75 x 125 cm, ed. 1/3, 2024
Archival pigment ink on Innova ”Soft Textured BrightWhite Photorag” with nutwood frame and museumglass
This work is part of the series Painted Room
With his art, Jan Theun van Rees focuses on the appearance of space as an image, the perception of that (visualised) space in relation to the space that surrounds us. Through his photographs he tries to visualise the specific qualities of those spaces. “Camera Lucida” is the catch-all term for all his artistic projects that try to visualise a connection between (interior) spaces and the outside world through incoming light. He intervenes in the space, manipulates the incoming light, to emphasise the spatial qualities he experiences. These interventions have become essential to his current practice. He constructs his own spaces, his own versions of a new, not yet existing reality. A certain spatial quality is visualised by constructing a space with the sole purpose to photograph the result.
In his new series Painted Room you can step into a new reality and become mesmerised by the rays of light, colourful surroundings and mystic shadows.
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By Jan Theun van Rees
130 × 65 cm, edition 2/3 + 1 AP , 2025
Pigment inkt, op Innova Photorag bright white, op 2 mm museumkarton ‘White Wash’Wenge Veneer with UV 70 Museumglass
(Also available in 90 × 45 cm, edition 2/3)
This work is part of the series Painted Room
In To Catch a Spark of Sunlight, Jan Theun van Rees captures the fleeting moment when light defines space. Built entirely by hand and photographed with precision, the work belongs to his Painted Room series, constructed interiors that exist only for the camera.
This particular composition plays with verticality and contrast, as sunlight appears to slice through the space, catching on surfaces and turning architecture into atmosphere. The title evokes a quiet urgency: the desire to hold onto something ephemeral, to freeze a passing beam of light.
Like much of Van Rees’ work, this image is both real and imagined, rooted in the physicality of construction, but shaped by the artist’s intuition and spatial memory.
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Atmosphere, emotion and presence
Sophie de Vos’ work brings yet another perspective. Her pieces balance mystery, nostalgia and understated drama. With their deep blacks and emerging forms, they invite repeated looking; they add something to a room that unfolds slowly over time.
By Sophie de Vos
165 x 100 cm, 2023
Proline Vibrant Satin with Satin Protection Film on 2 mm Dibond, with wooden frame (black)
Edition 2/2 + 1AP
From the series I followed the footsteps of a stranger
In “I followed the footsteps of a stranger” Sophie de Vos embraces the element of nostalgia, resulting in images that feel both familiar and mysterious. The pitch black backdrop where body parts seem to appear from, or disappear into, relates to the hidden, the secretive and the unknown, and as a result it creates an air of mystery.
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Paintings that shift throughout the day
Lisette Schumacher’s paintings bring a different kind of presence. Her works respond subtly to the changing light in a room, shifting in tone and reflection throughout the day. Even in smaller formats, the layered materials and precise colour choices give her paintings a quiet but continuous impact, the kind that doesn’t ask for attention but naturally draws the eye. They tend to evolve with the space, offering something new each time you walk past.
By Lisette Schumacher
90 x 70 x 6 cm, 2024
Mixed Media
Lisette Schumacher’s interest lies in the idea that architecture engenders a basic physical experience prior to also initiating an intellectual interpretation. By observing the location intensely and moving through each room repeatedly, she can both experience the space in a physical way and interpret it intellectually. After studying the site's history and architect, a period of in-depth research into technique, material and colour schemes follows. This results in a series of works that reflect on the site's atmosphere, history and its design.
Delivery within the Netherlands and Belgium is arranged in consultation, either in person or securely shipped.
By Lisette Schumacher
100 x 90 x 6 cm, 2024
Mixed Media
The View on Sunset series reflects Lisette Schumacher’s deep connection with mid-century modern architecture and the captivating sunsets of Los Angeles. Lisette’s interest lies in the idea that architecture engenders a basic physical experience prior to also initiating an intellectual interpretation. By observing the location intensely and moving through each room repeatedly, she can both experience the space in a physical way and interpret it intellectually. After studying the site's history and architect, a period of in-depth research into technique, material and colour schemes follows. This results in a series of works that reflect on the site's atmosphere, history and its design.
Delivery within the Netherlands and Belgium is arranged in consultation, either in person or securely shipped.
Choosing a work that belongs to your space
Selecting an artwork under €5.000 does not mean compromising on impact. It means choosing a piece that matches the rhythm of your home or workplace, something that meets you every day with presence, calm or inspiration.
If you’re unsure how a work might interact with your interior, we are always happy to help. We can show additional images, share installation ideas, or bring a piece to your home for placement. On request, we can also hang the work for you, ensuring that it sits exactly where it has the most effect.
These pieces are not just additions to a wall, they become part of the room’s identity.
