Try it above the sideboard; the checkerboard grid will do the editing. A busy corner suddenly reads as deliberate, because the squares hold everything in place while the bird and flowers move across them. The blue cools a warm room, the orange lifts a cool one. Hang it in a living room, hallway or dining room where you already have one strong colour to answer it back. Rust or blue velvet, cane, warm brown wood and cream linen all sit happily underneath. Skip busy patterned wallpaper behind it, and don’t crowd it with other bold colour pieces on the same wall. On canvas the brushy texture reads softer and more painterly from across the room.