Crane and Plum Blossom on Gold Canvas Print

With a crane and blossom study, scale decides whether the dining room wakes up. Go big enough and the gold ground starts behaving like light, lifting a dim wall without a lamp switched on. The deep blue-green top half pulls the eye up, so hang it a touch higher than you think and let the branch detail sit at standing height. It gets on well with dark wood, black lacquer, brass handles and cream ceramics, and it holds its own against a deep green or navy wall. Keep the wall around it clear — busy patterned wallpaper or a run of small frames will fight the blossom detail and flatten the gold. As a canvas, the matt surface softens the gold and keeps the edges clean and frameless.