A pair of framed botanical citrus fruit prints. The bold alignment of the fruits and the stark contrast between their pale-yellow skins and a dark block colour background imbues the composition with gothic undertones. One depicts a lemon and the other, a pomelo. We gave the prints an aged, distressed look using a traditional ‘gesso’ technique, this involves carefully treating the rich fir wood frames with a ‘gesso’ primer then applying single strokes of paint and gold leaf to achieve the desired effect; the surface is then pared back a little, to make them look antique.