Vintage Fish Painting Frame:Dark ash This is a tribute to

This is a tribute to the calm of an early seaside morning

from the rounded cheeks to the small pink nose and the neat paws resting on the ground

Dark evergreen pines climb the lower slopes

and echo the foliage of real houseplants nearby

It is a view that invites you to step straight into it

Vintage Fish Painting Frame:Dark ash This is a tribute toDozens of fish crowd this antique naturalist plate, arranged in careful rows across a sheet of aged ivory paper. A scarlet snapper and a coral red bream anchor the centre, flanked by slender silver herrings, spotted gobies, striped perch and a spiny sea urchin. Along the lower edge the study turns to the seabed, where feathery seaweeds, a coiled shell, a puffer fish and fronds of branching coral are rendered in soft olive and sepia. Every specimen is