Racket-Tail Hummingbirds by John Gould Art Print Size:A0 mustard cushions and stoneware mugs

mustard cushions and stoneware mugs

With a busy café scene

scratchy black ink on warm off-white — a sleepy cat sketched in one confident go

Trailing houseplants pick up the leafy greens nicely

the linen is creased

Racket-Tail Hummingbirds by John Gould Art Print Size:A0 mustard cushions and stoneware mugsOnce the soft green enters, the whole room stops apologising. A quiet Victorian bird study brings a bit of nature indoors without shouting for attention. Three tiny racket tail hummingbirds hover around pink tubular flowers and long slender leaves, drawn in the careful, hand coloured way of nineteenth century natural history plates. It works beautifully in a bedroom above a low headboard, in a hallway between doors, or in a study above a writing desk.