Scandinavian Wall Art for the Kitchen
Between them, a whole lobster, two carafes, a cafetière and more tomatoes than one table needs. Most are by Sia Siamos, a Greek and Norwegian illustrator living in Bergen, who paints food the way you actually meet it: mid-meal, hands reaching in from the edges, the cork already out of the bottle. Hedvig Wallin adds a pastel Sunday Brunch and rows of watercolour apples in Massa Äpplen, and Ishtar Bäcklund Dakhil's Frukt & Grönt lays out a page of fruit and vegetables with handwritten Swedish labels. In a kitchen they do the thing a landscape can't, which is agree with the room. Each is sold framed in wood, black or white, or unframed.
Kitchens are harder on a print than any other room, and it's worth knowing that before you hang something you love in one. Steam, cooking splashes and a wall of afternoon sun all land here, so keep a piece off the working run between hob and sink and out of direct light if the room lets you. Everything else relaxes: a kitchen takes more colour than a living room does, because there's already colour in it, tiles and pans and fruit and the rest. These prints carry enough colour to hold their own against all that.
Prints
Kitchen wall art ideas
- Hang it where you eat, not where you cook. The wall behind a kitchen table, a breakfast nook or the dining end of the room takes a print far better than the splashback run, and it's the wall you actually sit and look at.
- No spare wall? Go up and along. A single print above a doorway, on the end of a run of units, or propped on a shelf between the jars all work, and a 50 x 70 cm piece leaning on a plate rail looks deliberate rather than homeless.
- Hang two and let them face each other across the room: Vinkveld's dark evening tiles against Morgenlevering's morning light. That pair reads as a whole day, which is a better reason to buy two prints than symmetry is.
- Frame colour does more work in a kitchen than elsewhere. Black sharpens a scheme of white units and pale wood, a wood frame warms up a kitchen that has come out a little clinical, and white all but disappears into a painted wall.
Common questions
What wall art works in a kitchen?
Food, if you want the easy answer. A table scene or a still life belongs in a kitchen in a way a portrait or a landscape never quite does, and it can carry more colour than you'd hang in a quieter room. The prints here are exactly that: a lobster dinner, a cabin breakfast, a morning table, a wine evening, a Sunday brunch, rows of apples and a page of fruit and vegetables, all bold enough to compete with tiles and open shelving.
Where should I hang art in a small kitchen?
Look above the eye line and at the ends. The wall above a small table, the flat end of a run of units, the space over a doorway and the gap above a radiator are all usable, and a print propped on a shelf or plate rail needs no wall at all. The one place to avoid is the working stretch between hob and sink, where steam and splashes end up.
What size are the kitchen prints, and can I order them framed?
Most are 50 x 70 cm, which suits most kitchen walls without needing a measure-up, and each product page lists the size. Choose unframed, or a wood, black or white frame, on the product page before adding to the basket, where the price for that size is shown. Prints are made to order and delivered worldwide with the cost shown at checkout, and you have 14 days from delivery to change your mind.