A grid of forty squares fills the sheet edge to edge, five columns by eight rows, in terracotta, coral, rose, burgundy and ochre, with about nine squares of textured gold leaf scattered among them.
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At home in a kitchen, a dining room or a sunny study with cream, clay or warm white walls. Warm, rhythmic and quietly poetic.
Printable digital download, around 9,000 px on the long edge
The commercial licence covers hotels, offices, restaurants and public spaces
Print it yourself at any size, on metal, acrylic, glass or fine-art paper
On a Samsung Frame TV
Every download also includes a 3840 × 2160 file made for the Samsung Frame and other art-mode TVs: the whole work, uncropped, on a quiet mat in a colour taken from the picture. Send it to the TV with the SmartThings app and show it in Art Mode. All Frame TV art →
How large can I print it?
The file is around 9,000 px on the long edge. That prints crisply to about 75 cm on the long edge at gallery quality, and to 130–170 cm at the distance you look at a picture over furniture. Sizes, paper and framing, in detail →
Which paper or surface?
Gold on dark grounds wants a matte or satin fine-art paper (200–310 gsm), or aluminium for humid rooms; glossy photo paper turns the black into a mirror. The pale works also take satin and baryta papers.
Which licence do I need?
Personal (€9.99) covers your own home and gifts. Any business or space open to the public — a spa, clinic, hotel, office, restaurant — needs the commercial licence (€99.99, one venue, no renewal). The venue guide →
Looking closer, the grid is regular but never stiff. Each square is painted by hand, with visible brushstrokes and slightly uneven edges, so the lines between them waver a little like a woven cloth. The colours move between terracotta orange, coral, rose pink and pale pink, then darken into deep burgundy and wine red, with warm ochre in between. Neighbouring squares rarely feel quite the same, and the eye hops from one to the next rather than settling. The gold-leaf squares, about nine of them, are scattered across the grid and act like bright accents in a tune; their textured surface catches the light differently from the painted squares around them. Up close you can follow each stroke of the brush; from across the room the grid turns into a warm, gently pulsing field of colour.
Paul Klee taught at the Bauhaus from 1921 to 1931, and during those years he painted a group of pictures made from small squares of colour. Ancient Sound (1925) is one of the best known, with soft blocks that seem to glow out of a dark ground. Klee was a gifted violinist, and he often spoke of painting in terms of rhythm, harmony and polyphony. His squares are never ruled by machine; they lean and breathe, with edges that show the hand. This work follows that idea in the manner of Klee, using warm earth tones and burgundy, a current interior favourite, and adding squares of gold leaf as bright beats in the pattern.
This is a cheerful work for a kitchen, a dining room or a sunny study, where its warm colours look best in daylight. Clay, cream and warm white walls suit it, and it sits happily beside terracotta pots, rattan and natural linen. A plain oak frame keeps the hand-made feel; a thin gold frame picks up the leaf squares. Because the grid runs to the edges, it can also look striking without a mat. For a set, hang it with Stacked Arches in Burgundy, which uses the same rust and sand tones, or with Floating Circles in Burgundy for a pairing of squares and circles. The file is made at 300 dpi, so it prints cleanly to about 91 cm on its long edge.
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