Start with the rust red at the diver's throat; it'll wake every brass fitting around it. The rest is quiet — soft greys, deep charcoal, cream paper and a strip of cool water along the bottom edge.

Hang it and the room reads more considered. It brings a bit of natural-history weight without going heavy, and it pulls warm metals and timber forward by half a step.

It earns its keep above a desk, in a hallway, or over a low sideboard in a sitting room. Landscape format means it sits happily on a wider stretch of wall.

Pair it with oak or walnut, leather, linen, stoneware and a chalky off-white wall. Older botanicals, maps and other Audubon plates sit beside it without fuss.

Don't surround it with high-saturation modern colour or clinical white-on-white — it wants a bit of patina to play against. Frame in oak or black for the cleanest read.