A kitchen this pared back can take one serious dark green. Hang this puffin and the flat white walls suddenly have a focal point, with the sandy background warming everything around it and the orange beak acting like a small pop of colour you can pick up in a tea towel or a bowl of fruit. It sits well on a narrow stretch of wall beside a doorway, above a breakfast table, or in a child’s room where it can be looked at properly. Pair it with pale wood, woven baskets, cream ceramics and simple linen. Keep busy patterned wallpaper and fussy ornaments away from it the brushmarked background is already doing the pattern work. As a canvas, the painted edges and hand-mixed colours read as one solid block on the wall.