Peacock and Magnolia on Gold Canvas Print

Most botanical prints behave. This one picks a side. The whole background is gold, so the wall it goes on stops being a background and starts being the warmest thing in the room. Hang it and a plain dining room or bedroom suddenly has a focal point: the teal peacock reads as a jolt of cool colour against all that warmth, and the soft pink magnolia keeps it from feeling heavy. It works above a sideboard, between two windows, or on a narrow hallway wall where you pass it in low evening light. Pair it with velvet, dark wood, brass and hand-painted ceramics. Don't crowd it with lots of small pictures, and keep busy patterned wallpaper away from it. As a stretched canvas the gold has a slightly painterly, hand-worked look.