Checkerboard Blooms Art Print

Checkerboard Blooms Art PrintWe like still life best when it comes with a little abrasion. The blooms are loose and painterly, but the pink, blue and black checkerboard underneath is doing something stranger wobbling, splashing, refusing to sit still. Put it in a room that already has personality. It pulls a quiet wall into the conversation, sharpens a colourful sofa, and gives a flat painted kitchen something to look at. Hang it where you eat breakfast, or on a hallway wall that

A black or brown frame deepens the effect

Best at eye level on a pale wall where the line work can breathe

the room stops being polite — the carpet's pattern pulls the eye in

heritage feel

After the side-light shifts

Works best on a kitchen wall above a sideboard

while the pink and white blooms behind her warm the whole wall

topped and tailed with two big lines of type — the kind of print that makes people read your wall

The surface breaks into hundreds of cracked tile shards

or a child's room that's outgrown nursery pastels

Brushed nickel or matte black fittings work

doing the job of a proper colour pop