In the 1950s, this would have felt radical. It still does. Two blocks of colour, rust brown against pale sky blue, scraped back until the surface looks worked over for years. Hang it and a flat, quiet wall suddenly has weight and warmth. It holds a living room or study on its own, above a sofa or behind a desk, and it lifts a plain hallway that gets no daylight. Pair it with leather, dark timber, wool and stoneware. Don’t crowd it with small framed pieces or busy patterned wallpaper the texture needs empty wall around it to read properly. On canvas the worn surface reads almost like a real painted panel.