Puffin on Blue Canvas Print

With a single puffin, scale decides whether the kitchen wakes up. Go small and it reads as a quiet shelf piece; go bigger and the blue background does real work on the wall. The paint is loose and quick, so the bird keeps a bit of humour rather than looking like a field-guide plate. Hang it where you pass often — beside a back door, above a run of hooks, on the wall between a window and a dresser. It sits happily with painted timber, woven seating and blue-and-white china. Keep the wall around it simple: too many small framed bits and the orange beak stops being the thing you notice. On canvas the brushwork reads softly and the colour looks matt.