Some bird prints match a room. This one resets its pecking order. The soft sage green background keeps things quiet, then the red and blue parrot and the gold peony outlines do the talking. Put it up and a flat wall suddenly has a centre. Eyes go to it first, and everything around it starts to look chosen rather than collected. Hang it on a chimney breast, between two windows, above a sideboard, or in a hallway where you pass it every day. Pair it with dark wood, cane, velvet or linen, brass handles and simple green or cream ceramics. Don’t hang it near busy floral wallpaper or another strong bird or flower picture, and skip cool grey walls, which flatten the green. On fine-art paper the gold linework stays crisp and the background stays flat and even.