"Sick Day" Framed Canvas Print

A perfect powder morning. Phones are silenced. Excuses are made. In Sick Day, indulgence and escape collide in a playful, oversized fantasy where responsibility fades and the mountain calls louder than anything else.

The composition features a classic mid century pin up figure, reclined in quiet luxury, phone in hand as she calls out sick. Draped in a soft white fur coat, she becomes the landscape itself. Tiny skiers carve fresh lines straight down the folds of her coat, turning fabric into face shots and glamour into gravity. What should be a day of obligation transforms into a full blown powder day fantasy.

Like much of Matt Clark’s work, the piece is built from layered vintage comic books and pulp magazine imagery, blended with hand drawn elements and painterly textures. The aged tones and distressed surfaces evoke retro ski ads and classic après ski posters, while the surreal scale play keeps the mood light, humorous, and slightly rebellious.

Sick Day nods to every skier who has ever stared out the window at a storm cycle and made “the call.” It is about temptation, freedom, and the understanding that some days simply belong to the mountain.

Printed on a 40 inch high by 30 inch wide canvas and finished in a walnut wood frame, this piece brings bold retro energy to modern, mid century, ski lodge, or mountain inspired interiors. It is both nostalgic and mischievous, a tribute to powder days that are just too good to miss.