Kabuki Actor by Toyohara Kunichika Canvas Print

Kabuki Actor by Toyohara Kunichika Canvas PrintFirst glance: hot pink. Second glance: the portrait doing something smarter. A kabuki actor stares down the viewer in fierce stage make up, with a glare that holds the room without raising its voice. Hang it where you want a single decisive moment on the wall a study, a dark hallway, above a console in an entryway, or as the anchor of a moody living room. It sits well with inky walls, dark stained wood, deep red lacquer and brass. Keep neighbouring

This Menorca flower market poster brings a full Mediterranean morning into the house — pink and cream villas

painterly jungle of brown-trunked trees and small leafy shrubs — warm

Strong enough to carry a hallway end-wall on its own

' said nobody standing in front of black and white typography

Don't park it next to other large

Pale wood looks warmer

slightly low works too if it's sitting above a bench

The pattern pulls the eye in

but quiet enough to let the brushwork do the talking

above a slim bench

The greens pull furniture together

and a single ink drawing like this gives the eye something to follow without raising the volume