Start with the colour, then the picture

Why shop by colour

Colour decides where a canvas hangs long before the subject does

Most people choose art for the image, then discover the colour is what makes it work, or not, on the wall.

Nearly everyone arrives here with a colour already in mind, usually taken from a sofa, a rug or a splashback. The trap is matching it exactly. A canvas that repeats your cushions to the shade looks like a sample board and flattens the room. Pick a work that shares the family but shifts the tone — a rust against terracotta, an ink blue against denim — and both start to look deliberate.

Check the wall at night before you commit. Warm LED downlights pull reds towards brown and drain deep blues into black, so a canvas chosen in daylight can vanish after dark. Reds and blacks carry visual weight, so go one size down from what the wall seems to want; whites and bones need the opposite, scale up or they float. And leave the busiest colour off the wall you face from the dining table.

How your print is made

1. Choose the size and finishPick a size, then stretched ready to hang or framed. The size guide on every print shows it to scale.
2. Printed to orderYour print is made on canvas in Melbourne once you order, at the size you choose.
3. Stretched, framed, checkedStretched or framed in Melbourne, then checked before it leaves.
4. Delivered free, Australia-wideMade to order in 10 to 14 days, then tracked to your door. Thirty-day money-back guarantee if it isn't what you hoped.