Against plaster, the black ink reads less sweet, more deliberate. The room gets a clear focal point without gaining any colour, so a quiet scheme stays quiet while looking considered. Hang it at eye level in a study, above a desk, or in a hallway where you pass it often and notice a new detail each time. It sits happily on off-white, stone or soft grey walls, and holds its own beside pale wood, black metal and linen. Keep the area around it uncluttered shelves of small objects or a busy patterned wallpaper will fight the loose scribbled lines and flatten the drawing. As a canvas it loses the glazing shine, so the lines read softly from across the room.