Gilded Peacock in Teal and Gold Art Print

First glance: gold. Second glance: the peacock doing something smarter. The bird sits high to the right and lets its tail spill across the whole width, so the picture pulls your eye sideways instead of stopping dead in the middle. Put it up and a flat wall suddenly has depth: the scuffed gold ground reads almost like old plaster, and the teal keeps it from turning sweet. Hang it above a sofa, a sideboard or a dining table, at a width that lets the tail run. Pair it with velvet, dark timber, brass and warm off-white walls. Don’t crowd it with other bold pieces one strong neighbour at most, or it starts to shout. On fine-art paper the gold reads matt and painterly rather than shiny.