Water Serpents II by Gustav Klimt Art Print

Water Serpents II by Gustav Klimt Art PrintMost figurative prints behave. This one picks a side. Klimt's Water Serpents II is unapologetically romantic entwined figures, rivers of gold hair, and a thousand tiny flowers piled like jewellery on a warm, decorative ground. Put it up and the room softens. The deep gold and warm browns pull the eye, and the small bursts of pink, lilac and yellow stop the wall feeling heavy. Suddenly a quiet bedroom or dressing area has a centre of gravity. It works

or sofa in the living room

This print drops a striped beach umbrella against an open sky into the room

let it lead

Brass handles and lamps lift the warm tones nicely

Printed on thick fine-art paper that holds the soft watercolour edges beautifully

Don't hang it next to other busy

in the downstairs loo

The boot is drawn in clean single-line work

on a study wall behind a desk

Printed on heavyweight fine-art paper with deep

Hang it in a quiet living room or bedroom and the wall stops being a backdrop — it becomes the view

There's a reason illustrators keep returning to Bondi