Think of it as traditional Japanese bird-and-flower painting with less reverence and better instincts. The warm cream ground does most of the work, so the deep teal head and green tail feathers land as the only real colour in the room. Hang it where a wall has gone quiet a bedroom above the headboard, a hallway that needs a focal point, or a study wall behind a desk. It sits happily with pale linen, dark wood, cane and aged brass, and it likes warm lamplight in the evening. Keep the wall around it clear: busy patterned wallpaper or a crowd of small frames will swallow the drifting petals and flatten the whole thing. As a canvas the woven surface suits the soft silk-like ground and reads well from across a room.