Home is where the art is: from Picasso cushions and Van Gogh murals to Bonnard teatowels, mock up a masterpiece on your home furnishings

Londoners love art, with gallery blockbusters selling out like musicals. Now art is moving off walls and on to rugs, cushions and bed linen.

At Andrew Martin, the exotic décor store in South Kensington, they’ll morph any image from 2,500 pictures at the National Gallery into high-resolution wall murals.

The Impressionists are popular, as is Rousseau’s tiger.

David Harris, design director, advises: “Visit the gallery and fall in love with a painting, or even a detail which we can enlarge to show the brush strokes.”

The Surface View website, selling murals, wall panels, canvases, blinds and window film, offers images from 14 galleries and museums.

The big names are there — the V&A, the National Portrait and National Galleries — but so are intriguing niche outfits such as the National Railway and Postal Museums.

At the museums themselves, products linked to current shows are reliable for revenue, and don’t get repeated.

You can currently snap up a Bonnard or Burne-Jones tea towel for £10 at Tate Modern, where David Hockney’s A Bigger Splash is still selling as a jaunty cushion cover for £20.

Using tapestry rather than printing, The Conran Shop does a set of Picasso cushions, priced £99.

Arriving at Ikea this spring are limited-edition rugs by eight contemporary artists, based in the US, France, Korea, Japan and Poland, coming not only from the worlds of art and sculpture but also from tattoo parlours, graffiti and fashion.

“These rugs are exclamation marks in the home, whether you walk all over them or hang them on a wall,” says Henrik Most, creative leader for the project.

In 1991, three years after setting up in business, Chelsea rug maker Christopher Farr initiated a radical show with the Royal College of Art called Brave New Rugs.

Now he is crafting rugs for a mammoth fundraising project curated by Artwise for the WWF. It’s called Tomorrow’s Tigers — or TX2.

There are fewer than 4,000 tigers left in the wild, and the push is to double them by 2022.

Supporting the cause, with tigers as their theme, 10 renowned artists including Gary Hume, Anish Kapoor and Rose Wylie have made rugs which are on open show and to buy at Sotheby’s, 33-34 New Bond Street, W1, now until February 4 (wwf.org.uk/tomorrowstigers) with prices from £10,000.

Designer Zeev Aram, founder of Aram Store in Covent Garden, celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2014 with a series of art rugs commissioned from artists, designers, architects and writers.

Still available are striking works by pop artist Allen Jones and stained-glass artist Brian Clarke. Prices are upwards of £4,000.

But reissues of rugs by Eileen Gray (1878-1976) currently start at around £1,400.

London has many artists striking a happy balance between furnishing and art, whose chosen medium is usually rugs.

Crucially, they know what works well in a room and for the floor. Deirdre Dyson, with a sharply modern King’s Road showroom, launched a stunning new Feathers collection at the recent Maison & Objet trade fair in Paris.

Helen Yardley has a light-filled studio in Bermondsey crammed with yarns and samples, where she perfects her striking abstracts.

Meanwhile, supreme colourist Ptolemy Mann, working with Rug Maker of St Albans, turns her exquisite, graded-colour artworks into luminescent flat-weave rugs.