Discover a Frameless Canvas With Rounded Forms

The defining detail of this brown abstract canvas is what it leaves out: there is no frame, so the drawing continues over the edges of the stretcher and the piece finishes as a solid object rather than an image set behind a border. Seen from an angle, the forms carry on down the sides, which is why a frameless canvas suits a hallway or any wall you pass rather than face. The palette stays in neutral colours, warm browns against an unbleached ground, at 100 x 80 cm in landscape orientation.

The round shapes that make up the composition are soft rather than geometric, closer to river stones than to circles drawn with a compass, and that softness is what keeps a large piece from dominating a quiet room. Each canvas is produced using traditional methods, so the density of the pigment and the exact placement of the forms differ a little between pieces. What you hang is one version of the design rather than a reproduction of a fixed original, and every example is exclusive.

Where a Landscape Canvas Earns Its Place

A D-shaped ring hanger is already fitted, leaving you to choose hooks according to the wall: an anchor for plasterboard, a plug for brick, a hook driven into a stud. Landscape proportions want a horizontal anchor beneath them, so this large wall art sits well over a sideboard, a low bench or the back of a sofa, with roughly a hand span of clear wall between the furniture and the bottom edge. Above a fireplace it works too, provided the heat source is a modern sealed unit.

Without glazing, the surface of the abstract canvas is exposed, so dust it lightly with a dry brush and resist any cleaning fluid, which will lift pigment. Keep it out of prolonged direct sun to protect the browns. The piece is drawn to combine with the rest of the collection, so the same warm neutrals reappear in the papier mâché vases and linen textiles if you want a room to hold together without matching everything in it.