Wolf-Horde

Spruce and fir grow into narrow spires so that snow slides off the branches instead of breaking them, and that habit is what gives a northern skyline its sawtooth edge. A whole forest of those triangles has been packed into the head and chest...

One pup, and what is ahead of itA black and white pup stands on wet ground looking straight out, and the reflection beneath it is not a pup at all but the grown wolf it will become. The old copy had this cub imagining...

Two wolves tumble through a patch of grass, one rearing up with its jaws open, the other rolling beneath it with a paw lifted. The pair is painted in loose watercolour, brown and tan fur bleeding into flecks of orange and teal that scatter...

Cropped down to the stare Two eyes and a band of bristling fur carry the whole design. The artwork strips the wolf back to the part that does the work: a wide horizontal strip of flat black, spiky strokes flying outward like wind through...

What mist does to lightMist scatters light in every direction at once, which is why a fogged wood has no shadows and no hard edges, only shapes made partly of the air around them. This print works the same seam. The wolf surfaces and...

Bare woodland rather than snowMost wolf art defaults to a snow scene, and snow is cold in every sense: a white ground and a hard bright field that the rest of the room has to be planned around.This is a leafless winter wood instead,...

Watercolour suits a wolf like this one. The head is built from washes of turquoise, ink blue and violet, and the paint has been left to run, so long drips fall from the ruff and the ears towards the foot of the bed, thinning...

Bared teeth, amber eyes and a ruff of cold teal: this wolf is painted at two temperatures at once. The head and back run to warm russet and gold, while the mane, chest and forelegs turn blue, so the animal looks lit by firelight...

Two wolves meet muzzle to muzzle across the centre of this print, and every colour in the design answers to that meeting. The wolf on the left is built from ice: white and cobalt, with cold light curling off its ruff like frost smoke....

Sand is a real wolf colour. Coats across the species run from near white through cream and tawny to charcoal and black, and the palest of them belong to wolves living in dry, open country. This strap takes the light end of that range....

Scrollwork frames the wolf on this buckle like a crest. The head faces you square on, ears up, jaw open on a full set of teeth, and the flourishes sweep out from behind it in curls that finish in tight spirals at the corners....

The howl, held in relief A howl carries further than a bark. Wolves use it to find one another across open country, to gather the pack before a move, and to tell a neighbouring pack where a border lies. Sound is the one thing...

The head is an old wolf and cut to look it. Deep lines run back from the muzzle and ring both eyes, the ears stand up pointed on either side of the face, and the recesses are darkened so the wrinkles stand out against...

Two enormous blue eyes take up most of the face, each iris ringed with a paler blue and lit by a white glint. Real wolf cubs are born blue eyed too, and the colour usually turns towards amber or gold over their first months....

Where the border gives way The wolf's muzzle pushes clean through the right hand edge of this patch, so the outline follows the animal there rather than closing as a circle. The head is worked in white and grey line stitching over a gold...

Sculptors call it undercutting: cutting away behind a form so that shadow, not line, carries the depth. These two wolf heads are worked exactly that way. The eye sockets drop into darkness, the fur breaks into ridges along the muzzle and down the neck,...

Two colours only, black and white, held inside a circle. A wolf is shown in profile with its head raised and mouth open, stitched in white against a black field, a small moon set high on the left, and hatched line work suggesting a...

What 3D means hereWorth clearing up, since the term appears across this range and it does not mean what it sounds like.The panel is flat. Nothing stands proud of the fabric and there is no texture to run a hand over. What 3D describes...

The safest choice in the rangeIf you are buying one painting and you are not certain about the room, buy this one.A single wolf walks out of a bank of pale stones towards you, with a fallen bare tree lying behind it, flat water...

Split down the centre, the wolf on this tee is black on one side and white on the other, with a red eye on the dark half and a blue eye on the pale one. The print runs edge to edge over the body...