Open the curtains at mid-morning; the soft pink will handle the drama. This is a holiday mood in one frame a woman in a wide sun hat, a black-and-white cat in her arms, orange flowers and palm leaves behind her. Hung up, a plain wall stops being background. The pink lifts the whole room’s temperature and the dark cat gives your eye something solid to land on. Best above a sideboard, a low bookshelf or a bed, at a height where you look slightly up into it. Pair it with rattan, pale timber, linen and one or two real plants. Don’t crowd it with other busy patterned pieces on the same wall give it room to be the loud one. As a canvas the thick strokes read as a hand-painted piece from across the room.