Unlike most cat portrait art, this doesn’t wait for approval. A black cat sits dead-centre in a mosaic-thick flower garden, eyes locked on the room, surrounded by daisies, poppies and zinnias rendered in the dot-work language of the Vienna Secession.

What changes when it goes up: the room gets a personality. Quiet walls suddenly have something to look back at, and the deep ground does the work a feature paint colour usually does without the commitment.

Hang it where you want the eye to land first. Above a sideboard in the dining room, over a reading chair, or on the short wall of a hallway you walk towards. It needs a metre of breathing room either side.

Pair it with warm materials oak, rattan, linen, unglazed ceramics and one rust or ochre textile to pick up the poppies. Heritage greens and plaster pink walls flatter it.

Don’t crowd it with other figurative art or competing florals; this piece is the headline. Wrapped on ca