Flowers and Leaves by Kamisaka Sekka Canvas Print

Flowers and Leaves by Kamisaka Sekka Canvas PrintThere's a reason Kamisaka Sekka kept returning to botanical studies; rooms still respond. The close cropped leaves, soft pink fruit and pale lilac blossoms bring a quiet, hand painted softness without feeling fussy. Hang it where the room already feels still above a bedside table, a low console in a hallway, or a reading chair in a study. It sits well with pale oak, linen, cream plaster walls and stoneware in soft earth tones. Skip pairing it with

This is the decision: a painterly abstract botanical in sage

What changes is the noise level

a changing table or a reading chair

The room feels like it has a sense of humour again

not part of a stack

Here's the trick: let the cityscape cut through all that terracotta

The branches push up the wall in thick blue

its eclectic style and bright blues and yellows bring the beach to your home

mint and navy

Hang it and the room reads botanical without going jungle-themed

or terracotta suddenly have a friend

and the whole scene reads like a page from a much-loved storybook