Venice by Day | Venice Gondola Canal Scene Canvas Wall Art Print

About Venice by Day

Two gondolas sit moored in the lower half of the picture, their black hulls trimmed with gold scrollwork and lined with crimson and magenta cushions and a patterned rug. Above them a tall wall washed in faded terracotta pink rises on the left, marked by small white-framed windows and an arched brick doorway near the waterline. To the right a cream stone facade carries arched windows, a stone balcony and a trailing green creeper spilling from an upper ledge. Pale timber mooring poles stand in the jade-green water.

The treatment is loose and watercolour-like, with soft bleeding edges, blotched pigment across the plaster and reflections broken into flecks of turquoise and cream on the canal surface. It reads as a warm, sunlit sketch of a quiet back canal rather than a sharp photograph.

Suits a living room or hallway with warm neutral or cream walls, and works in a bedroom above a bed head where the crimson and jade notes can pick up cushions or throws. Pairs with timber furniture, rattan, brass lamps and other European travel scenes. Good as a single portrait piece in a narrow wall space. Browse more green art, red art, or read Art above the bed: what size and how high.