Stanley Park, Vancouver Canvas Print mount bromo The lemon trees

The lemon trees

Skip dark mahogany

What not to do: don't hang it near another busy pattern

or as the single thing on a narrow stretch of wall

Go too small and the detail gets lost

Stanley Park, Vancouver Canvas Print mount bromo The lemon treesAt mid morning, the forest path turns from nice idea to main character. Tall conifers frame a sunlit clearing, with a glimpse of water through the trees in soft blue, mustard and warm brown. The room gets a window onto somewhere else. A study feels less like a desk and four walls; a hallway stops being a corridor and starts being part of the house. The colours stay calm enough to live with daily. It works well at eye level on a hallway wall, above a