Because the gardener knew restraint, the bright pink hits harder here. Most of the picture is deep green garden leaves, so the painted stripes read as colour, not chaos. Put it up and a flat, quiet wall suddenly has a focal point the sort of wall you walk past without noticing now stops you. It works above a sofa, at the end of a hallway, or on a bare stretch of wall in a bright kitchen or garden room. Keep the furnishings simple: cane or rattan, off-white or soft green walls, terracotta pots, plain linen. Don’t crowd it with other loud patterns busy wallpaper, striped rugs and heavy florals all fight it. Give it room and it does the work alone. As a canvas the surface is matt, so the colour stays soft under daylight.