Animal Wall Art

Highland cattle and horses for a kitchen or a hall

Farm animal prints earn their wall space when the animal reads from across the room. A highland cow above the kitchen bench, a horse at the far end of the hall: either one carries a wall without help. The cattle in the Mane & Moor collection wear the long coat and fringe those animals are known for, and they hold their own against brick, linen or plain white plaster. Highland cow wall art appears in whichever formats and sizes each design allows, sold as single pieces. Riders tend to want theirs on a wall they pass each morning, a study or the stairs. Horse wall art is where to look.

Australian wildlife, from the back fence to the coast

Australian animal wall art makes a room feel like it belongs here. The Gum & Glaze range puts a painted look on wildlife you already know: an echidna, a koala, a kookaburra and a fairy-wren. The Range & Reef places each name a coastline. Pebbly Beach brings kangaroos onto the sand, Phillip Island adds little penguins, Monkey Mia brings dolphins into view. A beach you have walked gives a hallway a reason to be walked slowly. John Gould's mammals and birds of Australia sit alongside them, reproduced from files held in public collections.

Realistic, painted and vintage looks on one wall

You need not settle on one style for the whole house. Animal wall art holds together when the pieces share a thread: the animal, the scale, the frame finish. Repeat the finish through a room, oak look in one space, black or white in the next, and realistic animal prints sit comfortably beside painted and vintage work. The vintage end comes from the Birds & Botanicals plates, Audubon's bird work among them, printed from files in public museum, library and image archives. We clean the file and leave the picture as it stands. Where a record names the institution that holds the original, that piece's page shows a credit line. Rooms for children are handled on the nursery wall art page.

Choosing a format and size

Every design in the wall art range comes as an art print, a framed print or a canvas, though the size list changes from design to design. A shape appears only where the picture fills it with a slight crop and the file carries the detail. What the preview shows is what prints. The art print comes unframed: giclée on 200gsm archival matte paper, the pick if a frame is already in the house. A framed print turns up ready to hang. The frame is a slim 20 mm profile in oak look, black or white, with perspex at the front and no mount as standard. Canvas is 400gsm stretched over a 38 mm deep frame, mirrored at the edges. No hanging hardware comes with it, so plan the fixing before the parcel lands.