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Snakes and Adders – snakes and symbolism: a sign of beginnings, endings and wisdom. This one is Death. There’s a skull you see…..but also Poppies which stand for rememberence, also white lilies a traditional funeral flower.
This print is built from a tight, high-contrast palette: deep charcoal black, flat ivory white, and a hot brick red that reads almost orange in the snake’s banding, grounded by a muted olive green in the foliage and punctuated by the pale bone of the skull. The mood is bold and gothic – deliberately unsettling, with a collector’s eye for natural history. That warm brick red and olive green sit together as near-analogous earthy tones, which means the print holds its own against walls in deep charcoal or soft black (a direct tonal match for the background), as well as against a dark bottle green that echoes the olive undertones in the leaves. For contrast, a warm terracotta or rust-washed wall would pull out the snake’s banding without fighting the composition, while an off-white or warm bone plaster finish keeps things neutral without turning cold. This is a print for rooms that mean something – a study, a home library, a darkened hallway, or a bedroom designed around atmosphere rather than comfort. It belongs to the Snakes & Adders collection, which circles ideas of danger, transformation and natural beauty; it pairs naturally with other prints from that collection to build a gallery wall with real narrative weight. A compelling, considered gift for anyone drawn to gothic, occult or natural history aesthetics.
Printed on Enhanced Matte art paper using archival pigment inks, this is a smooth, gallery-grade stock with a soft, glare-free surface – museum-grade in its intended longevity – and that flat finish works equally well inside a slim black float frame or behind the glass of an ornate antique frame without picking up room reflections. The A3 (29.7 × 42 cm) sits well on a shelf, a mantelpiece, or as part of a layered gallery wall where its detail rewards close looking; the A2 (42 × 59.4 cm) has enough presence to hold a wall on its own, particularly in a study or hallway where the skull and snake composition can make a proper impression at eye level. This print is also available as a 28 × 40 inch (70 × 100 cm) canvas print, ready to hang with no frame required.
