Slow Breakfast Poster

Slow Breakfast is drawn and painted in a soft, slightly grainy illustration style, and everything in it is breakfast. A blue-rimmed plate with a scalloped pattern holds two croissants, one split and spread with cream, with dark cherries tucked beside them. A matching cup of coffee sits on its saucer to the right, and behind it a jar of dark red jam with a handwritten label. Two more cherries fall loose onto the cream ground. The shapes are outlined lightly and filled with flat colour that varies within each area, so the whole thing has the softness of coloured pencil. The words Petit Dejeuner are written below in dark red script. A margin runs around the artwork.

The palette is pale and the format is wide, which makes it easy to live with above a kitchen counter, a breakfast table or a dresser. Light oak is the natural choice; white keeps it airy and black gives the blue china more definition. It pairs with cream, pale blue and stoneware, and it works in a bedroom as well as a kitchen if that is where coffee happens first.