Fresh Picks in a Blue Net Art Print

Fresh Picks in a Blue Net Art PrintWe like still life best when it comes with a little abrasion. The lines here are scratchy, the colours are loud, and the whole thing has the energy of a Saturday morning trip to the greengrocer. Hang it in a tidy, neutral kitchen and the room loosens up. Bright blue, deep orange and warm yellow lift cream walls and pale wood without taking over. It sits well above a breakfast nook bench, beside open shelving, or on the gap of wall above a kettle and

Keep the walls warm — soft white

soft cream or pale grey work best — the colour does the talking

A simple oak or black frame keeps it honest

the cherry blossom and washed blue sea giving the space a gentle focal point without raising the volume

brass tap fittings and one or two real plants

A William Morris working sketch — carnations

light wall where the white background can disappear and the splatter takes over

oak and terracotta — anything warm and unfussy

The little red seal in the corner does most of the heavy lifting

orange tulips and yellow daffodils do the heavy lifting against soft Georgian-terrace pastels

The print drops a sunlit Moroccan courtyard onto the wall — palm trees

The sun sits high