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Calton Hill just off Princes street is full of monuments and gives spectacular views of the city. This is part of a series of original illustrations featuring well (and sometimes lesser) known Edinburgh streets and monuments.
Essential Edinburgh is a series of prints depicting the enchanting loveliness of the historical Scottish city where diedododa was born and lives in blissful happiness.
Dominated by soft sage and apple greens, warm sandstone and aged parchment tones, with accents of charcoal ink and glimpses of pale grey-blue sky, this print carries a calm, scholarly mood – luminous but never loud. Those warm sandy and cream tones in the stonework make it a natural companion to walls in warm white, soft putty, or a pale ochre-tinged linen; the cool sage greens meanwhile welcome a deeper sage or dusty sage-green wall for a tonal, enveloping scheme. If you prefer contrast, the charcoal linework can hold its own against a deep slate or blue-grey wall without the print receding. It suits interiors described as traditional, classic Georgian, relaxed maximalist, or New Edinburgh – layered rooms with books, brassware, and dark wood rather than stark minimalism. Hang it in a drawing room, home library, study, or a hallway where visitors first sense the character of the house; above a mantlepiece or a writing desk it feels particularly right. This print belongs to the Essential Edinburgh collection – art of the places we adore, made in Edinburgh for anyone who has left a piece of heart there, from the Forth Bridge to Arthur’s Seat. It pairs naturally with other prints from the collection for a gallery wall that builds into a love letter to the city, and makes a considered gift for a Scot living away, a new Edinburgh resident, or anyone who came, walked these hills, and never quite forgot them.
Printed with archival pigment inks on Enhanced Matte art paper – a smooth, gallery-grade stock with a soft, glare-free surface – the finish is genuinely museum-grade, reading cleanly in natural and artificial light without the distraction of reflection. That matte quality sits equally well in a slim oak or black metal frame as behind the glass of an ornate gilded one. At A4 the print works on a shelf, a mantelpiece ledge, or slotted into a gallery wall arrangement; A3 and A2 hold their own as standalone pieces above a desk or console table; A1 becomes a confident statement for a larger wall, and A0 is the scale to anchor a generous room – a stairwell, a sitting room chimney breast, or a wide hallway. This print is also available as a 28×40 inch (70×100 cm) canvas, ready to hang with no frame needed.
