Cranes on Gold Leaf Screen Canvas Print

In the 1700s, this would have felt radical. It still does. A flock of cranes pushes across a gold-leaf sky, with bamboo and plum blossom anchoring the lower edge.

Hang it and the room slows down. The gold background catches lamplight in the evening and lifts every warm tone already in the room brass, oak, aged leather, terracotta.

It belongs over a sideboard in a dining room, above a low console in an entryway, or along the long wall of a calm living room. Give it space it wants room to breathe.

Pair with dark timber, linen, stoneware and the odd black lacquered piece. It also handles deep red and inky blue beautifully.

Don’t crowd it with other busy artwork. The canvas gives the gold a soft, painterly surface that suits the screen origins of the piece.