Seen beside linen, the still life loses nostalgia and gains grit. The scratchy black outlines stop the fruit reading as polite country decor and give a plain wall something to argue with. Hang it where people eat or cook: above a sideboard, on a kitchen feature wall, or in a small dining nook where you sit close enough to see the pencil marks. It sits happily with warm clay and off-white walls, matte stoneware, linen and mid-tone wood. Keep the wall around it fairly bare so the loose drawing has room to breathe. Avoid crowding it with polished chrome, glossy black lacquer or a busy patterned wallpaper, which flattens the hand-drawn energy. As a canvas, the surface leans into the painterly, brushed feel.