Bonito (Sarda sarda) by Sherman F. Denton Canvas Print

Put bluntly, your kitchen can carry more silver-grey than it thinks. This old fish study is quiet, but it gives a plain wall a point of interest and a bit of dry humour. The cream background keeps things light, while the dark back and fine detail of the fish give the eye something to land on. Hang it above a run of cabinets, along a galley wall, or in a downstairs loo where people actually look. It sits happily with painted panelling, pale wood, stoneware and simple linen. Skip the busy patterned wallpaper behind it and don't crowd it with loud colour prints — this one wants a bit of breathing space. As a canvas, it arrives stretched on a wooden frame and ready to hang.