‘Too safe,’ said nobody standing in front of bright orange. This cat portrait brings colour into a room before you’ve even taken your coat off. Thick, broken brushwork in orange, blue and pink surrounds a black and white face with steady green eyes, so a plain wall suddenly has a focal point and a bit of humour. Hang it in a living room above a sideboard, in a hallway at eye level, or on a study wall you look at all day. It sits happily with warm woods, tan leather, off-white linen and plain painted walls. Don’t crowd it with other loud colour pieces, and skip busy patterned wallpaper directly behind it. On canvas the painted texture reads as a real picture on the wall, with no glare.