This week I visited Burberry at Old Sessions House in London for the exhibition ‘Here We Are’ curated by Christopher Bailey, Lucy Kumara Moore and Alasdair McLellan – in celebration of the September 2017 Burberry collection. I’d seen that Skye from @georgianlondon had been via her Instagram Stories...
Something I regularly feel shamed by is how helpless and impotent I know I am when it comes to the Refugee Crisis...
Yesterday I went to Hereford with Wyld Wood Cider to visit their organic cider farm and apple orchards. It was a really interesting experience visiting Weston’s; a fifth generation, family-run business founded by Henry Weston in 1878. They harvest the apples, ferment their cider and also...
Today’s composition was inspired by some artichoke heads my friend was about to dead head in her garden at the weekend...
I was working with yellows today; a sort of burnt, yellowy gold collation , and a sort of homage to the end of the Summer and the approach of Autumn...
I’ve been working on some of the details for my new online course starting in September and wanted to share them here first with a few images to give you a taste of the sort of thing I’ll be teaching ( There’s also more information...
I just had to write a quick post as I can’t bear throwing these dahlias away; I find their beautiful decay just as alluring and inspiring as when I first put them on the table over a week ago...
I woke up today needing, or maybe just feeling, something of the reds and yellows...
It always kind of takes me by surprise when I see something out of the corner of my eye and then suddenly know I have to get to the table and create a new composition. The table is the best blank canvas I’ve ever had, I...
Chelsea Physic Garden in London was a discovery for me in March and has recently inspired some of my new silk designs. The greenhouses are really wonderful, as are the textures and plants...