We like a river landscape best when it comes with a little abrasion. The dry, dragged brushwork here keeps the calm from going bland, and the one small boat gives the whole thing a sense of scale. Put it up and a quiet room gets deeper the pale beige reads almost like more wall, then the deep red sun pulls your eye up and holds it. It suits a bedroom above the headboard, a study wall behind a desk, or a hallway where you pass it slowly. Pair it with pale wood, oat linen, black metal and simple matte ceramics. Don’t crowd it with busy pattern or bright colour nearby; it needs air on either side to work. On fine-art paper the misty gradients stay soft and the brush edges stay crisp.