Once the warm peach enters, the whole room stops apologising. A painterly sunset sits low over a deep blue-green sea, with loose brushwork in the spirit of early Fauvist seascapes. Hang it and a cool room warms up; the sky pulls in golden light while the water grounds the lower half. It sits well above a sofa, a bed or a console in a hallway, ideally at eye level so the horizon does its quiet work. Style it with oak or walnut wood, cream linen, terracotta pots and warm metal lamps. Don’t crowd it with other busy seascapes or shell-and-rope coastal decor this one carries the wall on its own and prefers calm company. The canvas brings out the brushwork beautifully.