Sia Siamos

Pull up a chair

Athanasia Siamos, known as Sia, is a Greek and Norwegian illustrator living in Bergen, and her four prints are all versions of the same generous idea: the table with people around it. Painted loose and bold, each carries a Norwegian title that says exactly what it holds. Hummer og Vin looks down on a lobster dinner mid-toast; Morgenlevering is a breakfast table newly arrived; Hyttefrokost has the ease of a cabin holiday; Vinkveld, the moodiest of the four, is a wine evening with the cork already adrift.

Siamos belongs where food happens. A kitchen or dining wall is the obvious home, Vinkveld especially, but Morgenlevering is bright enough to lift a hallway or a bedroom that catches the morning sun. The four scenes were painted as kin, so a pair works beautifully: breakfast on one wall, wine on the other, marking the day's two ends. They sit at the warmest edge of our botanical prints, full of tomatoes, grapes and cut flowers rather than leaves and branches.