Rose-breasted Cockatoo by Gould Canvas Print trailing stems This is a Hokusai woodblock

This is a Hokusai woodblock landscape — the Yoshitsune horse-washing falls at Yoshino — and it wants a bit of wall to itself

and one or two stoneware lamps

Don't crowd it with other strong graphic prints — let this one carry the wall and keep companions quieter

bedroom or girly home office

Rose-breasted Cockatoo by Gould Canvas Print trailing stems This is a Hokusai woodblockIn the 1840s, this would have felt radical. It still does. A hand coloured plate of two Australian galahs, drawn from life for John Gould's Birds of Australia dusty pink chests, soft grey blue wings and pale cream crests set against a warm off white ground. Put it up and the room slows down. It brings a quiet, studious note without going heavy or dark, and the soft pink lifts a room full of oak, linen and cream without shouting. Works above a writing