At 4pm, the goldfinch turns from nice idea to main character. The low afternoon light picks up the mustard yellow and the orange marks, and a flat wall suddenly has somewhere to look. Rooms that felt safe get a jolt of colour without going loud everywhere else the pink and grey-green blocks keep it friendly rather than shouty. Hang it on a narrow wall between windows, above a sideboard, or in a kitchen corner where you pass it daily. It sits happily with warm wood, cane, linen and stoneware, and with soft pink or off-white walls. Don’t crowd it with other busy patterned pieces; give it a clear stretch of wall and let the brushwork do the talking. As a canvas the thick paint marks read like a painting on the wall.