Vintage Tea Gathering Art Print

Vintage Tea Gathering Art Print'Too safe,' said nobody standing in front of deep green. This is a vintage afternoon tea, painted from above scones, jam, lemon, lace doilies and china teacups laid out on a rich green cloth. A kitchen or dining wall that was reading polite suddenly feels lived in. The green grounds the room and the cream linens, lemon yellow and warm brown of the scones lift it without making it sweet. It belongs above a kitchen sideboard, on a breakfast nook wall or

What not to do: don't crowd it with other bright travel posters competing for attention

and the busy beach gives the eye somewhere to wander on a slow Sunday

The street climbs away from you and the room follows — your eye runs up the page and the wall suddenly has depth it didn't have before

Once the warm yellow enters

with the line 'another coffee

which can be framed

Let the print be the loud one

striped cushions

This print likes a bit of air around it

The black-and-white cat gives the eye somewhere to land so the colour doesn't shout

Don't park it next to another loud floral or a second pet portrait — one statement per wall

Hang it in your living room or office to channel creativity