From the doorway, the vertical reads clean. Up close, not polite. Five sunflowers crowd a heavy stone urn, with leaves that punch out in dark green and petals stamped in mustard yellow.

Hang it and the room warms up a notch. The yellow throws light back into corners that usually go flat by late afternoon, and the grey urn gives the eye somewhere quiet to land.

It wants a wall it can own — above a kitchen counter, on a hallway between doors, or over a small dining sideboard. Portrait shape, so narrow walls suit it.

Pair with oak or pine furniture, cream-painted joinery, stoneware and linen. Sage or off-white walls let the yellow do the work.

A black or oak frame keeps the folk-art feel honest.