Not because it’s sage green, but because it refuses to fade back. The dark vertical strokes hold the room’s attention even when you’re looking past them, and the soft cream ground keeps the wall feeling open rather than heavy.

A room with this on the wall settles. Conversations stay easy, the eye has somewhere to rest, and the green pulls all your linen, oak and stoneware into the same conversation.

Hang it where the light moves through the day an east or west wall is ideal. Eye-level above a low sofa, sideboard or reading chair gives it room to breathe.

Pairs naturally with oak, linen, matte black metal and warm cream walls. Stoneware vases and dried branches sit beside it without competing.

Don’t crowd it. This isn’t a piece for a busy gallery wall of colour it wants air around it, and one quiet companion at most. Stretched over a wooden frame with a textured weave that catches the brushwork beautifully.