When the living room feels over-arranged, this kind of tiger helps. It’s loud in the right way graphic black stripes, a curled body, one red mouth open mid-snarl, all on a warm cream ground.

The room gets a focal point that pulls the eye in one clean direction. Everything else around it can quieten down: matching cushions, tidy shelves, neutral walls suddenly have a job to do.

It earns the space above a sofa, a console or a sideboard. Works in a hallway that needs waking up, or a study wall that’s gone a bit polite.

Pairs well with dark wood, black leather, woven textures and stoneware in cream or brown. The canvas surface softens the black brushwork and reads more painterly up close.