On a warm afternoon, the burnt orange looks almost illegally fresh. That single hit of colour is what this piece does for a room: it warms up cream and beige walls without adding clutter or noise. Hang it at eye level above a sideboard, in a hallway where you pass it every day, or on a kitchen wall near the kettle. It sits happily with warm woods, tan leather, cream linen and simple stoneware, and it gives mustard or clay cushions something to answer to. Don’t crowd it with lots of other busy patterns or bright photography one strong bird is enough. As a canvas, the matt surface softens the colour and needs no glazing.