Nuttall's Marsh Wren by Audubon Art Print

Nuttall's Marsh Wren by Audubon Art PrintSome bird prints match a room. This one resets its pecking order. Two small brown wrens perch by a woven grass nest among tall reeds, drawn with the quiet detail of a 19th century natural history plate. Hang it where it can be read up close above a writing desk, in a hallway, beside a reading chair. The cream paper ground keeps it light, so it lifts a corner without weighing it down. It sits well with oak or walnut, linen, aged leather, stoneware and

soft green and cream pull through any room with botanical fabrics or warm wood

Skip busy gallery walls and loud patterned wallpaper around it — the textured surface wants room to breathe

and don't crowd it with other busy patterns — let the dotted forest be the loudest thing in the room

Hang it where you read

the warm gold will handle the drama

woven baskets and a jam jar of supermarket flowers on the shelf

Put it up and the room gains a clear warm point

This is a soft watercolour cityscape — domes

The painted figure is restful rather than busy

warm yellow all around it

and gives sofas

where the message has a chance to land on the way past