Seen beside terracotta tile, the cafe terrace loses nostalgia and gains grit. The brushwork is loose and the colour is turned up pink, coral, ochre and a hot deep blue sky.

Put it up and a quiet room warms by several degrees. It pulls the eye in and gives a neutral kitchen or dining wall somewhere to land.

Best above a sideboard, a dining table, or at the end of a hallway where it can be seen from the next room. Good in a sunny kitchen too.

Pairs well with pale oak, rattan, linen and stoneware. Brass fittings and terracotta tile lean into it nicely.

Don’t pile it next to other busy, high-colour pieces let it be the loud one. Stretched over a wooden frame and ready to hang straight from the box.