Curious Kittens and the Frog Art Print

Curious Kittens and the Frog Art PrintThink of it as Edward Lear with less reverence and better instincts. Three small kittens watch a frog with the kind of focus only a kitten can manage, all on a warm cream ground. Hang it in a nursery, kids' room or hallway and the wall gets a little story without going twee. Best at eye level above a low chest or changing table, or sitting in a quiet hallway gap. Pairs well with pale oak, rattan, cream linen and brushed brass. Don't crowd it with

it'll wake every oak around it

it sharpens the cut-paper edges nicely

an old rug — and gives them something to point at

a changing table or a low shelf

The artwork brings that same layered

off-white or warm stone work better behind it than cool grey

with foxgloves leaning in and the brick gatehouse holding the view at the end

leafy hush of the Orangery indoors — palms

A travel-poster style illustration of a Tokyo flower market in soft pink

or at the end of a hallway you walk down every day

There's a reason mid-century illustrators kept returning to the Mediterranean rooftop

cypress trees tucked between buildings