Unlike most abstract art, this doesn’t wait for approval. The blue arrives first and everything else in the room falls in behind it. Put it up on a plain off-white wall and the room stops feeling like a set of furniture and starts having a centre. The off-white background does the quiet work, so the blue never feels heavy. Hang it above a sideboard, a desk, or between two windows where daylight can move across it through the day. Pair it with pale wood, chrome, grey stoneware and plain linen. Don’t crowd it with other strong colours or busy patterned wallpaper, and don’t tuck it into a dim corner. As a canvas, it reads softly with no reflections, so it holds up in bright rooms.