Black Skimmer by Audubon Canvas Print

Black Skimmer by Audubon Canvas PrintBecause Audubon knew restraint, the deep red hits harder here. The bird does most of the work a long dark wing arcing across pale water, a single stroke of red at the beak. Hang it on a quiet wall and the room slows down. Pale oak, linen, rattan and stoneware all sit well around it, as do off white walls and soft grey panelling. Works above a sideboard, console or low bookcase, and earns its keep in a study or coastal bedroom. Avoid putting it next to

Skip the very pale

monochrome or strictly modern — this is a print that wants warmth around it

The leaves give it depth

a church tower and a quiet

Eyes travel up the dress

or a narrow stretch of hallway wall

or on a stair landing where the vertical drop has room to breathe

with stacked houses and blue domes climbing toward a deep blue sea

It's funny without being cartoonish

moons and shapes drawn in his loose modernist hand

Three things it does fast: ground black and white

cream linen and a wool throw