Mushroom Kitchen Wall Art
Mushroom kitchen wall art drawn from the basket: chanterelle, fly agaric and porcini, on a warm wall.
Mushroom kitchen wall art is what a kitchen wears when the cooking matters. Ochre, russet and bone, set against the mustard or terracotta a warm kitchen already has. Chanterelle, fly agaric and porcini, all drawn straight from the basket.
I drew all three within a day of picking. A mushroom starts collapsing the moment it is off the ground, and you can see it in the cap: these are hours old, not days. They sit inside the wider botanical art prints range.
Three fungi drawn within a day of picking: chanterelle, fly agaric and porcini. They want a warm wall, mustard or terracotta, not white tile. From $27 / about €23.
Key Facts
| The three plates | Chanterelle, Fly Agaric, Porcini |
| Wall colour | Mustard, terracotta or clay. White drains them |
| Arrangement | A tight trio, equal height, centred as one block |
| Where to hang | Outside the grease zone, about a metre (about 3 ft) from the hob |
| Framing | Glazed near a kitchen, so the glass takes the grease |
| Collection | Alpine Forager holds all three |
The three from the basket
See the collection ›The chanterelle is the one that tells you the cook forages rather than shops. Its false gills run right down the stem, the detail worth keeping at eye level. The fly agaric brings the colour, and it is the only one nobody eats.
The porcini is the anchor. It is the fattest, quietest shape of the three, so it takes the middle and steadies the group. Hung at one height, the three read as a single block, not three separate prints.
The foraged-table look
The foraged-table look is a table an hour after someone comes in from the woods. A basket, a knife, dirt still on the stems. Fungi put that on a wall in a way a cut flower never can: a flower is decoration, a mushroom is dinner.
It explains the palette, too. Fungi are ochre, russet, bone and dead leaf, and those colours fall flat against white tile. They need a warm wall to sit against.
See the collection ›Framing and placement in a kitchen
Everything within about a metre of a hob, about 3 ft, is a grease zone, and airborne grease does not come off unglazed paper. Frame these and glaze them. Hang above a shelf, along a run of drawers, or on the far wall.
Mushroom prints are not only for kitchens. The chanterelle sits perfectly well in a living room, and the forager palette scales up into a lodge or a bar. The kitchen is simply where the basket lands first.
Warm walls that suit fungi
Mustard, terracotta and clay all work, because they carry the same ochre that is already in the caps. A deep olive works too. White does not, and it is worth saying so plainly.
Against white tile the three go grey and start to look like a chart. If the kitchen is white and staying white, give them the one wall that is not tiled. Fungi need a ground to sit on, the same reason they hide in a wood and stand out on a table.
See the collection ›Drawing the chanterelle and the porcini
The chanterelle went from basket to desk in about an hour. The ridges under the cap soften fast, and once they soften you are drawing a memory of them. The colour is harder than it looks: it is not yellow, it is about four yellows.
The porcini was drawn cut in half. That is the only way to show the pore surface and the way the stem grain runs. A whole porcini seen from above is a brown circle.
Questions people ask
What art suits a rustic or foraging kitchen?
Fungi drawn from a real specimen, hung as a tight trio on a warm wall. Chanterelle, fly agaric and porcini give the foraged-table look because their palette is the palette of a wood floor.
Are mushroom prints only for kitchens?
No. The chanterelle works in a living room, and the whole forager palette scales up into a lodge, a study or a bar. A kitchen is simply where the basket lands first.
What wall colours suit mushroom art?
Mustard, terracotta, clay or deep olive. Each shares the ochre already in the caps. White tile drains the colour out and the plates begin to read as diagrams.
How do I arrange a mushroom trio?
Equal height, tight spacing, centred as one block rather than stepped. Put the chanterelle at eye level, since its false gills are the detail people come close to see.
How do I get these as prints?
Each study is printed and shipped worldwide from the botanical.art print shop. Paper starts at $27 / about €23 and framed prints at $91 / about €77, up to 107 by 152 cm (about 42 by 60 in).
Everything off the wood floor
Chanterelle, fly agaric and porcini all sit in Alpine Forager, the collection drawn from the mountain floor, alongside the honey mushroom, the oak and the juniper.
Printing it yourself? The mushroom set is a digital download on Etsy.
Original botanical art by Fiurdelin · archival giclée from $27 / about €23 · framed from $91 / about €77 · shipped worldwide