Mount Fuji from a Quiet Street Canvas Print

Mount Fuji from a Quiet Street Canvas PrintIn the 1970s, this would have felt radical. It still does. A suburban Japanese street becomes a frame for Mount Fuji, held between telephone poles and quiet houses. Hang it and the room slows down. It reads well in a hallway, above a low console, or in a study where you want something to look at rather than through. Sits happily beside pale oak, linen and stoneware, or a chalky off white wall. Avoid crowding it with busy colour, gallery clusters, or

the soft washes feel more like a painted mural than a poster

Best above the loo

where primary colors and geometric shapes collide in a joyful celebration of curiosity

a bathroom

modern illustration knew how to charm a room — and how to cut

pink and red bloom out of dark green foliage

then resolves into texture and humour up close — the eyelashes

the pink wall

Blue-and-white ceramics on the surface below echo the tiled house without overdoing it

and chunky ceramics

or down a hallway where you can see the leaves at full height

Don't bury it behind a busy gallery wall — it works hardest on its own