‘Too safe,’ said nobody standing in front of deep red. This is a nine-square grid of breakfast toasts, painted thick and fast, with navy and soft pink pushing between them. Put it up and a plain kitchen suddenly has a focal point that makes people smile before their coffee. It earns its keep on a kitchen feature wall, above a breakfast counter, or in a dining corner where the table is otherwise quite plain. Keep the furnishings simple: white tiles, pale wood, cream stoneware, a bit of enamelware. Skip busy patterned wallpaper next to it, and don’t crowd it with other loud food pictures one bold statement per wall is plenty. As a canvas, the brushy paint edges read like a real painted panel.