Not because it’s grey, but because it refuses to fade back. The colours are quiet, but the movement isn’t a dog at full stretch pulls your eye across the wall the second you walk in. Put it up in a hallway or above a low sideboard and the room stops feeling like a corridor and starts feeling lived in. It sits happily with pale grey or off-white walls, linen sofas, dark wood, and simple stoneware. Keep the wall around it fairly clear so the leap has room to read. Avoid crowding it with heavy pattern, busy florals or gilt-edged pieces they fight the loose brushwork rather than support it. As canvas the texture reads like a painting hung straight on the wall.