Afternoon Muse Canvas Print

We like portraits best when they come with a little abrasion. This one has it a woman caught mid-thought at a table of roses, lemons and bread, painted with brush marks you can still see.

Hang it and the room wakes up. The deep red behind her pulls the eye, the soft pink keeps things calm, and the sky-blue dress carries colour right through the wall.

It earns its keep above a sideboard, a dining table, or in the living room where people actually sit and look at things.

Goes well with linen, oak, brass and hand-painted ceramics. A warm, lived-in room is the right home for it.

Don’t bury it next to busy florals or another big portrait give it room to hold the wall on its own. Stretched over a wooden frame and ready to hang straight out of the box.