Summer Swim Gathering Canvas Print

Rooms go quieter when deep blue is this sure of itself. The water fills most of the picture, so the wall stops competing and the room settles around one strong colour. Put it where you sit for a while above a sofa, a low sideboard or a reading chair and the small flashes of orange do the lifting instead of a cushion or a lamp. It gets on well with pale linen, cane, mid-toned wood and cream ceramics, and it holds its own on a grey or off-white wall. Keep the area around it simple: one vase, one lamp, nothing patterned. Avoid crowding it with other blue seascapes or busy prints, which flatten the water and lose the summer feeling. As a canvas, the brushwork reads softly and the edges stay frameless.