On a warm afternoon, the mustard yellow looks almost illegally fresh. The room stops feeling careful and starts feeling cheerful one bird, three flat colour blocks, and a bright pink shadow doing all the talking. Hang it where people gather and pause: a kitchen wall beside the shelves, a breakfast nook, a child’s room, or a hallway that needs a lift halfway along. It sits happily with painted cabinetry, pale wood, rattan and colourful stoneware, and it is friendly with soft pink or off-white walls. Don’t crowd it with other loud colour pieces, and skip heavy dark wood underneath the thick paintwork wants light, plain surroundings to bounce off. As a canvas the raised brushwork reads like a real painting on the wall.