Once the bright orange enters, the whole room stops apologising. This is a food painting with real appetite: loaded toast slices in tomato red, mustard yellow and dark green, cutting a diagonal across a navy tabletop. Hang it and a flat kitchen wall suddenly has a focal point, and the colours already in the room a painted cupboard, a bowl of fruit, a tea towel start looking deliberate. It works above a sideboard, on a breakfast-nook wall, or as the one loud thing in a plain hallway. Pair it with pale wood, chunky stoneware and simple striped cotton. Don’t crowd it with other busy patterns or fussy prints; give it clear wall and let the brushwork do the talking. On canvas the ridged brushwork reads like a painting from across the room.