Michael Storrings Autumn By the Sea 1000 Piece Puzzle

A New England harbour town caught in the fortnight where summer gives up.

Michael Storrings paints places the way people remember them rather than the way they photograph. This one is a seaside town at the turn of the season - clapboard houses, boats still in the water, the trees already going. He has been Galison's most reprinted artist for years and the appeal is consistent: enough architectural detail to keep the eye busy, enough flat colour to make the sorting possible.

A thousand ribbon-cut pieces finishing at 68.5 x 51cm, on board thick enough that a joined section lifts without coming apart. The box carries an insert with the full image and a note on the artist. The difficulty sits in the foliage, where large fields of near-identical autumn colour reward sorting by cut shape rather than by hue. Allow several evenings rather than one.

Perfect for: Anyone who starts a puzzle in September and would rather it took until October.

1,000 pieces | 68.5 x 51cm finished | Ribbon cut