The smallest paintings in this catalogue are true A4, 29.7 × 21 cm, acrylic on artist’s cardboard, and this one holds a whole meadow. Sheep doze in the grass under a mild sun, eyes shut, each rounded silhouette rimmed with a calm purple contour; the green of the field moves softly from shade to shade instead of sitting flat. Nothing in the scene is going anywhere, and that is the point: it is a small machine for slowing down.

A work this size lives differently from a wall-filling canvas. It suits the shelf above a desk, the narrow strip of wall by a door, the corner of a kitchen: places big paintings cannot reach. And because the sheet is a standard A4, framing is the easiest it will ever be: off-the-shelf frames fit it exactly, no custom cutting involved.

At €90 this is also the least expensive way to own an original from the studio. It is not a print of a popular design and not one of an edition: the acrylic went onto this single sheet by hand, and the sheet carries Ksenia Derr’s signature. When it sells, there will not be another identical one.

This sheet is in stock. It is packed in a protective tube, the studio ships all its paintings this way, and sent postage-free to most countries with a tracking number shortly after the enquiry is confirmed. If the pastoral calm is right but A4 is too modest, the meadow can be repainted larger to order.