The Frame

Exploring art, space, and the stories behind the frame


Famous Cat Paintings and the Artists Who Could Not Stop Drawing Them

Famous Cat Paintings and the Artists Who Could ...

Clara Bell

Cats have padded through art history for at least 4,000 years, from Egyptian tomb walls to Victorian parlour paintings to the flat-planed prints filling modern living rooms. What follows is...

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Dog art styles explained: painterly, pop art, line art and portrait

Dog art styles explained: painterly, pop art, l...

Clara Bell

Dog art is one of the most saturated categories in the print world, and also one of the most misunderstood. Most listings just throw around words like "painterly" or "pop...

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Black Cats in Art: From Folk Charms to Modern Silhouettes

Black Cats in Art: From Folk Charms to Modern S...

Clara Bell

Few motifs have carried as much cultural weight, or as many contradictions, as the black cat. Sacred in one century, feared in the next, then reborn as a graphic shorthand...

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The Complete Guide to Styling Your Rome Italy Wall Art Gallery

The Complete Guide to Styling Your Rome Italy W...

Jasmine Okoro

Most Italy-themed gallery walls fail for the same reason: they treat each city as a separate holiday memory rather than parts of one visual story. This guide shows you how...

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Audubon vs John Gould: which antique bird prints should you hang?

Audubon vs John Gould: which antique bird print...

Jasmine Okoro

Audubon and Gould are the two giants of 19th-century ornithological illustration, and their work still dominates the vintage bird print market almost two centuries on. But which one actually belongs...

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Famous Paintings of Rome: From Piranesi Ruins to Modern Cityscapes

Famous Paintings of Rome: From Piranesi Ruins t...

Miles Tanaka

Search for "famous paintings of Rome" and you'll get a muddle: Caravaggios housed in Roman churches, Pompeian frescoes made by ancient Romans, and generic modern prints of the Colosseum at...

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Ancient Roman Frescoes Explained: The Four Styles of Roman Wall Painting

Ancient Roman Frescoes Explained: The Four Styl...

Jasmine Okoro

For roughly three centuries, wealthy Romans covered their walls in painted illusions: fake marble, fake windows, fake gardens, fake temples floating in mid-air. When Vesuvius buried Pompeii and Herculaneum in...

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Our Favourite Van Gogh Garden Prints for Every Room

Our Favourite Van Gogh Garden Prints for Every ...

Miles Tanaka

Why Van Gogh garden prints work in modern interiors (not just traditional ones) There's a stubborn assumption that Van Gogh's garden paintings belong in cottage kitchens and grandmother's parlour. That's...

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French Country Wall Decor: How to Get the Look Without the Château

French Country Wall Decor: How to Get the Look ...

Miles Tanaka

Most French country decor guides assume you own a farmhouse in Provence, a budget for antiques, and permission to rip up your kitchen. This one doesn't. If you love the...

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Why Do Most Park Wall Art Gallery Walls Fail Before They're Hung?

Why Do Most Park Wall Art Gallery Walls Fail Be...

Miles Tanaka

Most gallery walls fail on paper, not on the wall. People buy prints they love, guess at spacing, hammer in a nail, and hope. This guide walks through the actual...

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Curated or Cluttered? Decorating with Nature Prints the Right Way

Curated or Cluttered? Decorating with Nature Pr...

Jasmine Okoro

Nature prints are the easiest wall art to buy and the easiest to get wrong. One botanical here, a moody forest there, a vintage bird plate your aunt gave you,...

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Japandi Bedroom Wall Art: How to Create a Space That Feels Like a Deep Breath

Japandi Bedroom Wall Art: How to Create a Space...

Miles Tanaka

Bedrooms are the hardest room to decorate well because the goal isn't to impress anyone. It's to help you sleep, wake up gently, and spend quiet hours in a space...

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Matisse Botanical Art vs Modern Botanical Prints: Which Suits Your Space?

Matisse Botanical Art vs Modern Botanical Print...

Clara Bell

Both trends promise to bring nature indoors, but they do it in almost opposite ways. Matisse throws colour at the wall like a jazz solo. Modern botanical prints whisper in...

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Why Do Matisse Tree Prints Work in Every Room?

Why Do Matisse Tree Prints Work in Every Room?

Miles Tanaka

Matisse's trees and gardens sit in a strange sweet spot: recognisable enough to feel considered, quiet enough to live with. Unlike his cut-outs, which shout, his tree work whispers. That's...

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Farmhouse Wall Decor Ideas That Don't Look Like a Barn Conversion Gift Shop

Farmhouse Wall Decor Ideas That Don't Look Like...

Jasmine Okoro

Farmhouse decor has a reputation problem. Somewhere between the shiplap boom and the "Live Laugh Love" invasion, it stopped meaning "warm, rustic, layered" and started meaning "coordinated set of three...

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5 Rooms Where Vegetable Prints Look Better Than in the Kitchen

5 Rooms Where Vegetable Prints Look Better Than...

Miles Tanaka

Why we need to stop thinking of vegetable art as kitchen-only Vegetable prints have been exiled to the kitchen for so long that most people can't picture them anywhere else....

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Farmhouse Kitchen Wall Art: 7 Ideas That Go Beyond the Obvious

Farmhouse Kitchen Wall Art: 7 Ideas That Go Bey...

Miles Tanaka

Farmhouse kitchens have a problem, and it's not the aesthetic itself. It's what happens when the aesthetic gets flattened into a shopping list of signs, sayings and stencilled roosters. The...

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Vegetable Art for Kitchens: What Actually Works (and What Doesn't)

Vegetable Art for Kitchens: What Actually Works...

Miles Tanaka

Vegetable art is one of the few genres that improves the room it's hung in and gets read differently every time you walk past it. But kitchens are hostile places...

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What to Actually Hang on Your Kitchen Walls (And What to Avoid)

What to Actually Hang on Your Kitchen Walls (An...

Jasmine Okoro

Most kitchen art is too small, too generic, and hung too high. It fades within two years because the frame was cheap, the glazing was thin, and nobody thought about...

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Lemon Decor: Timeless Trend or Passing Fad? Your Buying Guide

Lemon Decor: Timeless Trend or Passing Fad? You...

Clara Bell

Lemon art is everywhere right now, which naturally raises the question of whether it belongs on your walls or in a time capsule marked "2023." The honest answer is more...

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