Unlike most dog art, this doesn’t wait for approval. The spaniel is already gone, hair flying, feet off the ground, and the soft green background just about keeps up. Hang it and a quiet wall picks up movement the sort of energy a family room actually has. It earns its keep above a sofa, a sideboard or along a hallway where you pass it a dozen times a day. Keep the company simple: linen, oak or walnut, rattan, cream stoneware, a chalky off-white or muted green wall. Avoid crowding it with busy pattern or other strong animal pictures the brushwork needs a bit of breathing room to read properly. As a canvas, the thick brushmarks sit closer to the original painting.