Cubist Muse in Warm Neutrals Art Print

Cubist Muse in Warm Neutrals Art PrintWe like portraits best when they come with a little abrasion. The face here is broken into flat blocks of cream, warm brown and soft beige, with a single dark eye and one inky navy shadow holding the whole thing together. Hang it in a room that has a few quiet surfaces plaster walls, linen, pale oak and it slows everything down without going beige. It works above a sideboard, in a study, or at the end of a hallway where you catch it on the way past.

hosting-tonight energy

A dense forest-floor scene of red and mustard toadstools rising out of layered ferns

the wall stops being a wall and starts being a presence

an oak sideboard feels softer

or in a reading nook where you want a smile rather than a statement

dried grasses

or beside the bath where little eyes can find it

Avoid hanging it next to busy patterned wallpaper or another large floral — give it quiet neighbours

the room finds a centre

and it doesn't fight other art as long as the rest of the wall stays quiet

and warm low lighting

It pulls a quiet room into focus