At mid-morning, the abstract turns from nice idea to main character. This is the piece that stops a plain white room feeling like a waiting area. The hot pink, yellow and orange throw warmth across the wall, and the drips at the bottom keep it feeling hand-painted rather than printed and tidy. Hang it in a child’s room above a low chest of drawers, on a bright living room wall, or in a hallway that gets no natural light and needs the lift. Keep everything around it plain: pale wood, white paint, simple cotton and linen. Skip patterned wallpaper, busy cushions or other loud colour pieces nearby. It only works when it’s the loudest thing in the room. On canvas the brushwork reads as a real painted surface, which suits the loose, wet look of the paint.