When the living room feels over-arranged, this kind of botanical study helps. One tall thistle in bright pink and dark green, cut into flat shapes, breaks up a room where everything already matches. Hung above a sideboard or between two windows, the strong vertical line pulls your eye upward and gives the wall something to say. It sits happily with linen sofas, deep green joinery, warm timber and simple stoneware, and the soft peach background keeps the pink friendly rather than loud. Skip busy patterned wallpaper behind it and don’t crowd it with lots of small pale drawings this one wants a bit of clear wall on either side. As a canvas the surface reads softer and suits a larger size on an open wall.