Plate 13 by Ogino Issui Art Print

Plate 13 by Ogino Issui Art PrintAgainst walnut, the olive and sand botanical reads less sweet, more deliberate. Issui's leaves and cobwebs sit against a near black ground threaded with red, cream and gold, and they bring quiet weight rather than colour. Put it up and a room slows down. It does its best work in studies, snugs and bedrooms where the walls are already warm or chalky, and where the lamps do most of the lifting after dark. Hang it on its own at eye level above a low

it pulls the rest of the room into a calmer key

or beside the dining table

Somewhere between Matisse-style line work and modern kitchen poster design

Greens settle

not a busy gallery wall

Best above a console in the hallway

A stacking plastic garden chair

while the deep greens settle next to oak or rattan and stop the room feeling flat

and the green leaves keep things from going too heavy

lie and grin across an off-white background

Hang it and the corner it sits in suddenly feels like a sunny morning

Looks especially good in a black frame against a white or off-white wall