Golden Cranes in Flight Canvas Print

Once the deep green enters, the whole room stops apologising. A quiet wall suddenly has a point of view, and everything already in the room looks more deliberate. Hang it where people pause behind a sofa, above a sideboard, or at the far end of a hallway so it greets you as you come in. It flatters dark wood, brass and gold fittings, deep green or inky painted walls, and velvet or linen seating. Warm lamplight brings the gold up; harsh overhead light flattens it. Don’t crowd it with lots of small busy pictures, and don’t pile pattern on pattern underneath give it a calm shelf or table below and let the cranes do the talking. As a canvas, the deep green reads soft and matt with no reflections.

Nothing in this deep green and gold whispers, even when the living room does. The birds carry the light, and the dark background does the rest it pulls a flat wall back and gives the room somewhere to look. Hang it above a low sofa or a sideboard, roughly at eye level when you’re sitting down, so the flight line runs across the room rather than over your head. It sits well with dark wood, rattan, linen, stoneware and warm metal fittings, and it’s happiest in a room with lamps rather than harsh overhead light. Don’t crowd it with other strong images one busy patterned piece nearby and the birds stop reading. As a canvas, the deep green edge wraps the frame and reads almost like a painted panel.