From their earliest days through to adolescence, our children are embarked on an incredible journey of development and discovery. Integrating glamorous nature art works into their home environment introduces a powerful, beneficial stimulus that can enhance their development and ease their mood.
It’s in our nature to decorate the walls of a child’s room, and Fracarte fine artworks offer the opportunity to use rich, empowering functional artworks that are pleasantly absorbed through the eyes, gentle on the mind and just right for your child’s developmental stages.
Guided by research in public health, childhood development, stress, psychology and learning, Fracarte has developed artworks that can benefit children throughout their early and later developmental stages.
If you are going to put art in a child’s room, why not draw on the fractal power of the specific nature dimension to activate those same parts of the brain as real-life immersion in nature. Our natural shapes undergo a mathematical process called fractal analysis to ensure they possess the beneficial properties that the research on fractal dimension provides.
The first year
Indications are that early visual stimulation for infants and toddlers may increase alertness and attention spans. ‘Research has proven that black and white contrasts register powerfully on baby’s retina and send the strongest visual signals to baby’s brain. Stronger signals mean more brain growth and faster visual development’. https://www.askdrsears.com/topics/parenting/child-rearing-and-development/bright-starts-babys-development-through-interactive-play/playtime-articles/visual-stimulation-newborns/
From birth to six months, babies have limited ability to distinguish between colours, meaning simple, bold patterns with high contrast boundaries create the strongest response as ‘a newborn retina can only detect large contrasts between light and dark, or black and white’.
https://www.askdrsears.com/topics/parenting/child-rearing-and-development/bright-starts-babys-development-through-interactive-play/playtime-articles/visual-stimulation-newborns/
In the first year of life, babies are growing physically, cognitively and emotionally at a rapid rate, with vision a key factor. ‘If you provide continuous visual input into baby’s eyes, the retina thrives, the optic nerve grows, and the visual part of baby’s brain thrives and develops by leaps and bounds’. https://www.askdrsears.com/topics/parenting/child-rearing-and-development/bright-starts-babys-development-through-interactive-play/playtime-articles/visual-stimulation-newborns/
FracArte’s artworks, featuring nature-sourced shapes, that are created in specific fractal dimensions in black, white and grey are designed to engage with a baby’s developing visual perception and with an understanding of the visual cues babies seek out and enjoy.
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Toddlers to 12 years
Can a poster or picture on a wall have a function beyond simple aesthetics? Focused attention is important for learning and a relaxing environment is critical for children.
Too much time in stimulating, brightly coloured and noisy spaces can be overwhelming and research suggests https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/heavily-decorated-classrooms-disrupt-attention-and-learning-in-young-children.html that clutter and excessive visual stimuli in the form of colourful decorations can distract children. FracArte offers unique visual design choices for the home, preschool or classroom that aim to nurture the developing learning abilities of children.
Our simple, nature-based art designs can contribute to the positive, calming influence of a room for young ones.
Experts in therapeutic healthcare and classroom environments have noted that the visual information we receive can generate responses of anxiety or serenity and that favourable visual stimulation can support visual thinking, problem solving, and creativity.
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The teenage years
When it comes to the adolescent mind, balance is important. Decorations can be aesthetic, informative and functional but key to their power is their ability to resonate with youthful spirit and imagination.
Our unique and favourable fractal nature art can enhance the energy of a space and, because it is easily registered and pleasantly absorbed by the eyes, it gives youthful eye muscles a break from the near-vision work of school or homework. By combining the findings of the positive impacts of exposure to nature and natural shapes and specific fractal dimensions we aim to reap the maximum benefits for you from the studies.
We create in subdued, monochrome colour palettes that soften glare and clutter, and offer the beneficial effects of a micro-mindful moment - an instant of serenity for a busy adolescent mind.