Goldfinch in Bright Colour Art Print

First glance: hot pink. Second glance: the bird portrait doing something smarter. Up close the goldfinch is built from thick, confident strokes, with scribbled black lines and blocks of orange and sky blue holding it in place. On the wall it does the job a bright rug does for a floor — it gives a quiet room a centre and a bit of noise, in a good way. Hang it above a sideboard, in a hallway that gets no natural light, or on a chimney breast where people already look. It sits happily with warm white or soft grey walls, pale wood, rattan and coloured ceramics. Don't crowd it with other loud pieces; give it a clear stretch of wall and let it talk. On fine-art paper the brushmarks and pencil scribbles stay crisp.