There’s a reason photographers kept returning to quiet beaches at low tide; rooms still respond. Two surfers cross the wet sand with their boards, the sea flat and pale behind them, headland just visible in the haze.

Hang it and the room slows down. Walls stop shouting, colours soften around it, and the eye keeps drifting back to the two small figures.

It suits bedrooms, bathrooms and coastal hallways anywhere you want the air to feel a bit thinner. A large size above a low bed or console gives it the breathing room it needs.

Pair with pale oak, linen, rattan and soft white walls. The canvas softens the photographic edges and reads almost painterly up close.

Avoid hanging it next to busy patterns or bright colour-block prints they’ll flatten the quiet.