Seaside Sanctuary with Cat Art Print

Seaside Sanctuary with Cat Art PrintIn the 1950s, this would have felt radical. It still does. A painterly bedroom scene with a spotted cat, open windows and a slice of blue sea, painted with the loose, joyful brushwork of a holiday morning. Hang it in a bedroom or a quiet reading corner and the room slows down. The blues bring in light, the soft pinks and reds keep things warm, and the mustard lamp adds a friendly nod. It sits well above a bed, a low chest of drawers or a painted

Don't crowd it with bright primary alphabet prints

Brushed brass picks up the warm yellow without shouting

or above a kitchen sideboard and the rest of the room organises itself around it

this one has a sense of humour

A neutral study or hallway picks up a clear focal point

the pink flower softens the edges

It earns its hook

Eye-level above a sideboard or shelf works best — it wants to be read

linen and a few blush ceramics

the better the lilac reads

hand-drawn and unapologetically silly

colour and a bit of bookish character to a wall