Small Waves by Kamisaka Sekka Canvas Print

Small Waves by Kamisaka Sekka Canvas PrintTest it this way: if the bedroom feels safe, size up. Sekka's Small Waves brings a long, slow breath into a room without competing with anything already there. The horizontal banding settles a busy corner, lifts a quiet one, and works beautifully on a chalky off white wall above a low bed, console or reading chair. Pair it with pale timber, linen, soft wool and stoneware in oat and clay tones. Keep companion pieces equally hushed a single botanical, a

The colour is loud on purpose — flat blue

a St Bernard slumped in the snow

This one is calm rather than fierce — a young cowgirl in profile

The portrait shape rewards an empty stretch of wall and reads well from across the room

It lifts the mood of a galley kitchen

Hang it where you walk past slowly — a study

in the downstairs loo

Don't crowd it with other busy travel posters or strong patterned wallpaper — this print wants a calm wall to breathe against

brass fittings and stoneware in cream or ochre

The room feels a little wider

and a flat neutral wall suddenly has a focal point that holds the eye without shouting

woven rugs and stoneware in muted greys and browns