The Cut Oranges | Orange Slices Still Life Canvas Wall Art Print

About The Cut Oranges

Two thick wedges of orange sit on a shallow white dish, filling the centre of the composition. The front segment glows in saturated tangerine and yellow, its cut flesh marked by pale radiating lines of pith, while the wedge behind leans back in deeper apricot and red-orange. The dish is ringed with a thin gold line and carries a small painted flower in crimson and teal at its lower edge. Around it, the cloth breaks into broad strokes of cobalt, cornflower and mauve, with white and pale aqua swirled through the upper left corner.

The surface is built from flat, loaded strokes that sit side by side rather than blending, so ridges of colour catch across the fruit and the blue ground. Shadows under the plate read as violet and plum instead of grey, and the white of the dish is tinted with blue and cream. The mood is bright and unfussy: an everyday kitchen subject handled with strong colour contrast between warm citrus and cool blue.

Well suited to a kitchen, dining room or breakfast nook, especially above a sideboard or against white or pale grey walls. The cobalt ground works with blue and white ceramics, linen napery and timber tables. In a beach house it pairs easily with rattan seating and other small still life or botanical prints. Browse more orange art, blue art, contemporary art, or read Art above the bed: what size and how high.