‘Too safe,’ said nobody standing in front of soft purple. Two hibiscus flowers open right across the picture, with wet brushwork, flicked ink and grey-green stems left deliberately unfinished. Hang it and a plain room stops feeling plain: the purple lifts off off-white and grey walls, and the loose splatter gives an otherwise tidy space a bit of movement. It sits happily above a bed, a sofa or a long sideboard, and holds a hallway wall on its own. Pair it with linen, pale wood, soft grey ceramics and glass. Don’t crowd it with other florals or heavy pattern nearby it needs breathing room to read properly. As canvas the brushwork reads softly, with a matt surface and no reflections.