Year of the Horse Folk Botanical Art Print studio apartment A black or oak frame

A black or oak frame keeps the line work doing the talking

painted with the kind of brushwork that doesn't fuss

Twelve herbs and spices are drawn in confident black line — basil

and tiled rooftops fall away towards the hills

Year of the Horse Folk Botanical Art Print studio apartment A black or oak frameBecause the artist knew restraint, the deep red hits harder here. A folk art horse stands at the centre of a mirrored garden, and the room steadies around it. Hang it where people slow down an entryway, a study, the wall above a sideboard and the space picks up a quiet ceremony. It works above low oak or walnut furniture, on chalky off white walls, and beside woven rugs and stoneware in earth colours. Skip busy gallery clusters and competing patterns;