Ripe fruit and market produce on canvas

Why food art

Food art works best where people sit down, not where they cook

Kitchens have the least usable wall in the house, and the walls they do have are the worst for canvas.

Almost everyone buys food art for the kitchen, then discovers the only free wall is above the cooktop or beside the rangehood. Steam, airborne oil and heat will dull a canvas surface within a couple of years, and splashback zones are usually tiled anyway. The pieces that last are hung on the dining wall, the wall opposite the kitchen, the butler's pantry, or the breakfast nook where you actually sit.

Go bigger than instinct suggests. A single apple or pear at 60 x 90cm reads as a considered still life; the same image at 30 x 40cm reads as a fridge magnet. Above a sideboard or buffet, aim for roughly two thirds of the furniture width and leave 25 to 30cm of wall between frame and benchtop. Pick one warm tone in the painting that already appears in your timber, terracotta or brass, and let the rest sit quietly.

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.