Lunch with Friends Canvas Print

Three things it does fast: ground mustard yellow, sharpen painted timber, wake the kitchen. The whole room takes a friendlier turn. Conversations start before the kettle’s on. Hang it above a kitchen sideboard, a breakfast nook bench, or a family dining table where it gets seen every day. It sits happily next to blue-and-white china, painted chairs, stoneware jugs and a little clutter of cookbooks. Skip anything that wants to be precious around it polished glass cabinets, hushed grey walls and overly serious gallery walls will work against the humour. It wants warmth, painted wood and the smell of toast.

Seen beside painted timber, the dinner party loses nostalgia and gains grit. Two cats and a brown horse sit at a teal table laid with wine, avocado toast and a blue and white jug a folk illustration with real warmth and humour. Hang it in a kitchen, dining nook or family-friendly hallway where it can spark a smile on the way past. It works above a sideboard, between cabinets or over a small breakfast table. Pair with rattan seating, linen runners, terracotta pots and blue and white ceramics. Don’t crowd it with other busy illustrations give it a calm cream or soft green wall and let the colours do the talking.