Match Day from Above Canvas Print

Match Day from Above Canvas PrintFrom the doorway, the rectangular pitch reads clean. Up close, not polite the brushwork is loose, the white lines a bit wobbly, the players barely more than dabs of paint. That's the charm. It looks hand painted, not printed off a sports magazine. In a kid's bedroom or a family snug, the room shifts from generic to specific. Suddenly there's a story on the wall a match in progress, the ball at the centre circle, twenty odd players figuring out their

perched between pastel bottles and a hanging fern

with its fresh watermelon perched atop a simple table

even the colour of your kitchen tiles

or in a narrow hallway where the light is soft

You stop noticing the radiator

looking off to the left

The deep navy band settles the eye low

study or calm living room

shifting water — and the room reorganises itself around it

It also gets on well with a single woven rug and a softly shaded lamp

and the yellow cab gives the wall a single warm anchor that the rest of the room can lean into

Style it with pale wood