Here’s the trick: let the cityscape cut through all that plaster. The pink, peach and cream houses do the talking, with the snowy Alps washing in behind in soft blue-grey. It’s a gentle travel scene, not a postcard. Hung in a hallway, bedroom or home office, it adds warmth to a quiet wall without taking the room over. The pink bicycle gives the eye somewhere to land. Works above a console, a low chest of drawers or a desk. Pair with pale oak, linen, soft wool and ceramics in chalky off-whites. Keep the surrounding wall calm busy patterned wallpaper will fight the watercolour wash. Printed on premium fine-art paper, framed or unframed.