A woman in a white dress and wide-brimmed black hat on a dark horse — a quietly modern figurative painting that reads as a piece you sought out from a gallery, not picked from a chain catalogue.
The Ascot Canvas is a large-format figurative painting in muted earth and bone tones, framed simply in a slim natural pine surround. The composition is deliberately restrained — a woman seated on a dark horse, her face shaded by the wide brim of a black hat, her white dress falling in loose painterly folds — the kind of quietly contemporary equestrian portraiture that has become a signature of Soho House and the Aman group of hotels. At 140 × 100cm it is genuinely substantial, sized to anchor a wall above a console, bed, sideboard or sofa where smaller prints would feel lost.
What sets it apart
The detail that makes it different
The colour palette is the Ascot's quiet signature — most large-format figurative canvases in this category default to either heavily saturated colour or cold black-and-white photographic prints, both of which fight for attention in a room. The Ascot does something different: the entire painting sits in a single muted earth-tone palette of sand, bone, dark brown and warm black, with the only real contrast coming from the white of the dress and the silhouette of the hat. The slim natural pine frame is the considered counterpoint — pale, simple and unfussy, designed to support the painting rather than compete with it. The result is a piece that genuinely works above almost any sofa, bed or console.
Part of our wider wall art collection — works particularly well as a statement piece above a sofa, console, sideboard or bed, where the substantial scale gives the room a genuine focal point.
The Ascot is a high-quality reproduction printed onto canvas and stretched over a pine frame, finished with a slim natural pine outer frame. The canvas surface and brushwork texture give it the visual depth of an original painting at a fraction of the cost of an artist commission.
Where does the Ascot work best?
At 140 × 100cm portrait orientation, the Ascot suits substantial walls — above a three-seat sofa, behind a console or sideboard, above a bed in place of a headboard, or as a statement piece in a hallway or stairwell. As a general rule, the artwork should be around two-thirds the width of the furniture it sits above.
How is it hung?
The canvas arrives with fixings ready for hanging on the reverse. At 4.9kg the piece is light enough for standard plasterboard fixings, though we'd still recommend a second pair of hands when positioning given the 1.4m height.
