Against plaster, the teal reads less sweet, more deliberate. The warm cream ground keeps everything soft, then the ring of blue and gold feather eyes pulls your eye across the wall in one clean sweep. Hang it above a sideboard, a low bookcase or a sofa in a living room or study, where the width has room to breathe. It sits happily with dark wood, cane, linen cushions and stoneware in cream and clay, and it lifts a chalky off-white or soft green wall. Keep the area around it quiet: skip busy patterned wallpaper, and don’t crowd it with other strong prints on the same wall. As a canvas, the soft aged ground reads warmer and more painterly.