Bordeaux Kitchen Still Life | Framed Canvas Print

Large enough to hang alone, which not every print is.

This works on its own, which is the practical difference between it and a small print. At 60cm across it holds a chimney breast, a kitchen wall or the space above a small sideboard without needing company.

Above furniture, artwork should span roughly two thirds of the piece below it, so this suits a console or sideboard of about 90cm. Leave 20cm to 25cm between the furniture and the bottom of the frame.

On an empty wall, centre it at around 145cm to 155cm from the floor, which is standard gallery eye level.

In a kitchen, keep it away from the hob and the sink. Cooking grease and steam are hard on any framed piece, and a still life ends up somewhere it can be seen rather than somewhere it gets splashed.

It has the surface of a painting rather than the flatness of a print.

The canvas texture reads through the image, and the brushwork is visible: loose, confident strokes in the mottled olive background, thicker paint on the highlights of the copper and the lemon. That texture is what stops it looking like a poster in a frame.

The composition is classic kitchen still life: a copper pan with its handle turned toward you, a dark wine bottle, a whole lemon and a cut half, a brown onion, a wooden spoon and a scatter of green leaves on a white cloth. Everything an old master would have put on a table, arranged the way they arranged it.

The palette is deep and warm: olive and ochre behind, copper and aubergine through the middle, with the lemon doing all the lifting. That single bright yellow against dark tones is the oldest trick in still life and it is exactly why the eye goes where it does.

The frame carries a thin gold inner edge against dark timber, which is a traditional framing detail for oils. It separates the image from the frame and gives the whole thing the look of something properly framed rather than bought ready-made.

• Visible brushwork and canvas texture, so it reads as a painting not a poster
• Gold inner edge on a dark timber frame, a traditional detail for oils
• Large enough to hang alone, unlike a small print
• Classic still life composition, copper, wine, lemon and onion
• Deep warm palette of olive, ochre, copper and aubergine
• Belongs in a kitchen or dining room without needing any justification
• Holds its own against a deep wall colour, where pale art disappears
• Reads as inherited rather than recently bought

This is a dark painting and it wants depth behind it. Olive, sage, clay or soft charcoal make the copper and the lemon glow. Against brilliant white the whole thing reads heavier than it is.

A dining room, a kitchen diner or a pantry. Still life in a bedroom is fine but it is doing nothing; in the room where food happens it is doing its job.

Oils and textured canvas need raking light to show the brushwork. A picture light, a table lamp on the surface below, or daylight from one side. Flat overhead light kills the texture entirely.

The copper is the one worth repeating. A brass or copper vessel on the surface below ties the painting into the room. Repeating the lemon yellow tips into theme.

A still life is already a busy composition. Hung alone with clear wall around it, it reads properly. In a gallery cluster it competes with everything beside it.

Dust the surface with a dry, very soft brush only. A textured canvas holds dust in the weave, and a cloth can catch on raised brushwork.

Nothing wet on the canvas, ever. No sprays, no damp cloths. If it is unglazed, water will mark it permanently.

The frame takes a dry cloth. Nothing abrasive near the gold inner edge, which is a fine detail and easily rubbed back.

Keep it away from the hob and the sink. If it is going in a kitchen, cooking grease and steam are the two things that will age it fastest.

Out of direct sunlight, which fades any pigment over years, and away from a radiator.

What to expect. The canvas texture and the depth of the brushwork are more apparent in person than in a photograph, which is the usual way round for this kind of piece.

It ships packed to protect the frame and surface in transit. Current timescales and charges are set out on our delivery page.

Not sure whether 60cm suits the wall you have in mind? Send us the measurements and we will tell you. Reach us via our contact page or live chat.

If it is not right once it is up, our returns process is straightforward, and everything is covered by our guarantees and warranties.

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