Plain English work-ethics – the artist-designer and craftsman Greg Powlesland’s house and workshops at Frenchman’s Creek
This is the house that Greg Powlesland built - artist, designer, maker, boat-builder and reclaimer, repairer and re-purposer of old things - boats, vehicles, architectural salvage and industrial materials. He shares it with his son... 
Breakfast at Manor Farm, Carlos Sanchez-Garcia’s homestead, sunny Sunday morning.
Country house vernacular is what Carlos Sanchez-Garcia does - with knobs on. HIs magpie eye spots and classifies all the multifarious strands and elements he comes across everywhere he goes, distilling them into a taxonomy ...
Jane Hill at Shepherd’s Cottage: Every picture tells a story.
Jane Hill has lived at Shepherd's Cottage for about 20 years now. Its unique, a seventeenth century backlands cottage just behind Highgate high street, once inhabited by a sheep drover who may have penned his...
The Last of Old England – Gretchen Andersen and Old Manor Farm
‘To start with this house had hardly any furniture. The men who moved us in were so shocked they left us the tea chests, so we used them for a year at least.’ This is...
Beauty and Utility in Dorsetshire – Bonfield Block-Printers
This is Bonfield Block-Printers, the workshop and home of Janet Tristram and Cameron Short and family, in Thorncombe village, Dorset. They came here about 9 years ago - This is their story, told...
Morality, Architecture and Belief, Quinlan and Christine Terry at home and work in Suffolk
Quinlan Terry is a deeply serious proselytiser for classical architecture.His traditional practice - operating outside the mainstream architectural establishment - has gained him many plaudits and the occasional brickbat. Half-hidden by a Wellingtonia,...
Viola Lanari, artist, home and studio – in her own words
'I came here in 2011. The flat was all white, I was a student, but I had people renting the spare room. I was trying to fill the void, buying things and hanging them everywhere.' ...
The Magpie Eye : Mark Hearld
Mark Hearld is the busy, polygamous artist and maker whom I've long wanted to meet. He has made multiple marriages, to print-making and collage, drawing and painting, lino-cutting, ceramics, wallpaper and textile design, cut-outs and collecting,...
Gretchen Andersen, and her extraordinary Lacquer Chest of Treasures
At the Lacquer Chest, her fabled antiques shop in Kensington Church Street, Gretchen Andersen has a ringside seat from which to monitor and influence the shifting sands of our changing taste in things. When she started...
‘An agreeable house to live in’ : Wolfeton House near Dorchester.
Wolveton ( or Wolfeton) House stands in its little plot of green verdant land bordered by water meadows to the north-west of Dorchester, where trees and docks grow tall and small creeping flowers with medieval...
The Patinated Past: At Restoration House in Rochester
Jonathan Wilmot and Robert Tucker have lived in Rochester at Restoration House since 1994. Growing up in Australia, Robert Tucker had set his sights on seeing the world and becoming a writer. ‘In those...
Go Wild in the Country, Rusticating, with Luke Edward Hall
In 2019, artist-designers Luke Edward Hall and Duncan Campbell were looking for a place in the country, somewhere to plant a garden and have friends for the weekend. They found it here, at the Gloucestershire...
‘Framing is a language,’ A. Prin Art, Benedict Foley, Daniel Slowik and Cottagecore
A.Prin Art Studio: 'Framing is a language...' Benedict Foley and Daniel Slowik began renting Pink Cottage soon after they met, because their London place is in Hackney and East Anglia is a ‘good...
An Old House in Whitechapel, near Spitalfields, By Tim Whittaker
The story of how an old house in East London was saved from demolition and revived I have spent most of my adult life fighting developers – their destructive avarice, their desire to clear and...
Why we loved Laura Ashley, all over again.
Laura Ashley had begun to print textiles in 1953 but her fashion label really took off in the 70s... A couple of years ago we all started wanting it again [this image copyright Jane Ashley...
Bridie Hall ‘At Home.’
Bridie Hall, artist-designer and co-founder of the amazing shop and homestore, Pentreath and Hall, was born in New Zealand and ran away to seek her fortune in London twenty years ago, on finishing art school....
A Magpie’s Life, by Cath Kidson
I have always been an inveterate collector of stuff. I reckon it started when I was a small child with a trip to the white elephant stall at our local fete. I’d won the prize for...
Recapturing the castle, Bernard Nevill, Eastnor and me, by Sarah Hervey-Bathurst.
‘Have you lifted your leg on the place?’ The question erupts from my portly and moustachioed neighbour at a dinner given for members of the Historic Houses Association. I have barely been introduced to Sir James...
Charleston Farmhouse needs you.
The French call the little, personal and inconsequential anecdotes that are most revealing of life, les petites histoires. Charleston Farmhouse is full of them, signposts and memoranda of the lives of the illustrious, clever Bloomsbury Group...
On drawing, painting pictures and designing a new wallpaper, by Marthe Armitage
"I am an aged artist still working - just. My tubes of paint had been left un opened and ignored following a year of unhealth and it seemed to me that the muse had departed ....
The Pauper’s Cookbook and The Country Kitchen, china, compost heaps, cold frames & – country life by Jason Goodwin
Ever since I wrote Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire, I’ve been brooding. On the face of it the Ottomans had precious little to shout about, though they ruled from the castle...
On delighting in cracked, chipped, ‘Rescued’ things and coming back to her old family house in Scotland, by Domenica More Gordon
It is an odd thing to find yourself living back in your childhood house at the age of 40 with your parents and your own young family and husband. Sometimes as I walk through the...
House, hearth, home and garden by Bridget Elworthy (@thelandgardeners)
An Argentinian cousin of my fathers once said to me - you do not choose a house - it chooses you. And I have to say she was totally right. Having moved rather a lot since...
A Wandering Eye, With Min Hogg in Gran Canaria, by Miguel Flores-Vianna
I met Min at my friends Charlotte and Alex de Carcaci, in their old Cheyne Row house, a freezing evening in February of 2012. Having recently moved to England I had been dying to meet the...
For the Love of Houses by Veere Grenney
Veere Grenney is the interior decorator feted for his chic, very English style. Our friendship began half a dozen years ago when he asked me to help with On Decorating, the book he was writing,...
Egyptomania, Portobello Market, Camels, Whippets and Ottoman textiles, At home in London by Lulu Lytle
The first time I saw Lulu Lytle she was delivering the Best Man's speech at Ben Pentreath's wedding supper in a very beautiful hat. I didn't know a great deal then about Soane Britain, the...
Friends, not Chickens, by Jasper Conran
The designer Jasper Conran O.B.E. is the author of Country ( Conran Octopus, 2010), still the very best book of its kind and a subject on which he is eloquent. He says that country life...
Seaweed, Smoking and Scale, the Importance Of : Molly Alexander remembers her great aunt, Min Hogg.
Feted as the inventor-founder-editor of The World of Interiors magazine, in later life Min Hogg reinvented herself as the proud designer of an exquisite range of seaweed pattern wallpapers. Professionally she was often fierce, but her...
Gavin Houghton, On Wallpaper, The World of Interiors, Painted Floors, Jack Russells – and Darren.
I found my house in Stockwell 20 years ago. It’s an early Victoria terraced house second from the end, with steps up to the apple green front door and a ground floor bay window on metal...
On Moving House (for the Fourth Time) to half an Elizabethan House with a ‘Jennifer Archer ‘ Kitchen – and hanging sill-length curtains…By Isabel Bannerman.
The bibleobritishtaste has asked what it is that one does turning to a new place and re-using all the leftovers for the fourth time in a lifetime . I would like to point out as...
Humble Elegance: John Fowler’s creative response to troubled times, by Daniel Pieckielon Slowik
Arriving one Easter at Veere Grenney's scintillating house in Tangier, Gazebo, I was curious to know who the other guests were. A bedroom door was flung open and Daniel Slowik appeared, smiling beautifully beneath a Panama...
S J Whitework’s Design Heroes: Cecil Beaton, J.E.T. and Marthe Armitage.
I started trailing the designer Susanna White because of a lamp shade. It was a tall cone printed with 'Hunters,' the dashing repeat design of a man and woman on horseback drawn by her grandmother Joan...
By Ben Pentreath: A Month in the Country and the Story of Parsonage Pink
It’s four weeks now since we’ve been here, down in Dorset. I’d say a couple of weeks ago the house got very tidy indeed. Everyone in the country, housebound and feeling helpless, went on a massive...
the bobt: a trip to the archives
To mark April's Renaissance, the bibleofbritishtaste presents new stories and themes. Some are being commissioned from generous and talented friends. But these are not them. Today's story is an amuse gueule from its archives of thousands...
I am a painter and I paint every day: Romi Behrens at Prussia Cove
Romi Behrens, b.1939, who lived at Prussia Cove in West Cornwall, belonged to no school of art and received no formal painting tuition Romi grew up, very happily, riding donkeys, in the idyllic surroundings of...
Peter Hone, Master-Plaster-Caster.
Peter is a Master-Plaster-Caster, the only one of his kind. Now he does bespoke commissions and sells some more via Pentreath and Hall's Rugby Street shop.
Old Albion, Ben Pentreath, Charlie McCormick and their Old Parsonage.
As some of you will know, architect and designer Ben Pentreath and plantsman, florist and collector Charlie McCormick live for most of the time in a small hamlet in West Dorset, although they have a London...
Trereife House in West Cornwall, Lost Land of Lyonesse.
They rebuilt the 'new' house at Trereife in 1710, on and around the older one, as has so often been the case. There's a back drive with high stone gate posts and rhododendrons and this front...
Min Hogg’s World of Interiors: Seaweed wallpaper.
Min Hogg lives round the corner from the V and A and the Brompton Oratory. She is the creator and founding editor of the World of Interiors magazine, generally considered to be outstanding in...
Alan Powers on Enid Marx (& the bobt on ‘lost’ 30s artist Suzanne Cooper).
Alan Powers moved into this flat-fronted terraced house of London stock brick 35 years ago. He was a youthful painter manque who has instead become a historian of twentieth century art and architecture, the author...
At Wardington Manor, the Land Gardeners.
'Walled gardens - and restoring them - is what we really want to be doing,' says Bridget Elworthy. Four years ago Bridget and her friend and partner, Henrietta Courtauld, started the Land Gardeners. Cutting gardens and...
At Brewery House, in the Somersetshire Hills
I met Ursula Brooke at lovely Shulbrede Priory, the family house of her late husband Thomas Ponsonby,now home to her sister-in-law Kate and her husband Ian Russell. Some time after they had generously allowed me...
Measure, Draw, Build: George Saumarez Smith, architect.
This is the home of George Saumarez Smith in Winchester. Howard armchair in the basement drawing room I went there to photograph on a sultry day in August, when the sky...
The Old Sweet Dove of Wiveton.
Wiveton is a hamlet on the north Norfolk coast, with a pub and a church and pretty brick houses set behind their walls and fences. Wiveton Hall stands on the edge of the...
David Bridgwater, his curious world.
David Bridgwater wrote to me a few weeks ago. He had read the art book that I published with Yale, Owning the Past, about the English collectors who scoured Italy, Greece and Turkey for antique sculptures...
Shulbrede Priory near Lynchmere.
On the borders of Sussex, Surrey and Hampshire, Shulbrede Priory is the surviving corner of the rather obscure religious house of Wlenchmere, founded at the end of the twelfth century and suppressed by Henry VIII in...
Back to the Drawing Board: Pat Albeck.
In the autumn of 2016 I visited the artist and renowned textile designer Pat Albeck in the Oxfordshire gate lodge where she has lived for about four years. She came there with her husband the acclaimed...
Domenica More Gordon, an artist’s house in Scotland.
Years ago, when our children were young, our generous friend Mary took us all for summer holidays at her family house, on one of the outermost islands in the Outer Hebrides. There in the rain, with...
At home in West Dorset 2, Julia de Pauley.
I photographed my friend Julia de Pauley's house here a couple of years ago. It changes all the time. She was designing some belts under her pseudonym, 'shophound' but her perfectionism meant that things were never...
Wonders of the East End: Malplaquet House.
Thirty years ago this old house, built in the 1740s and set back behind a high wall on a main thoroughfare in London's East End, was a wreck, sans joinery, window frames or fireplaces, its...
Stone and shell in Somerset-shire: Belinda Eade.
Flanking the chimney in Malplaquet House - the home of Tim Knox and Todd Longstaffe Gowan - are shell candle sconces in the Baroque taste made by Belinda Eade almost 20 years ago. As a pupil...
New Years greetings from the bible of british taste 2015
The Eynsham Morris, boy novices at the first stop on their local Boxing Day four-pub fixture. NB Green Man. Photo credit my sister Lizzie who was standing next to me. Thank you for subscribing. A new...
Dingles Fairground Attractions.
A dozen times a year I drive down the A303 to Cornwall. Just before Launceston, when I am thinking of stopping for a cup of tea, I flash past a brown tourist sign that reads...
Peepshow in London E2, Simon Costin’s Museum of British Folklore by Adam Richards Architects.
At Unit 1, Cremer Business Centre, 37 Cremer Street https://architecturediary.org/london/events/4970 there's a peepshow that you can visit for the RIBA London Open Studios / London Festival of Architecture this weekend. Peepholes set at intervals up...
In Somersetshire, kiln from John Piper, ceramics by Prue Piper.
The Old Laundry in Somerset. This is the house that Prue Piper and her husband Edward found in the 1960s. Built from the local oolite limestone, it was once the laundry for a large country...
Glynn Boyd Harte, painter, author, post-Pop young-fogey-bohemian and genius,1948-2003.
Glynn Boyd Harte was born in Rochdale in 1948. He met his wife Caroline Bullock (herself an artist and historian) in the foyer of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in 1968, when he was...
Trematon Castle : “Escape culture all day & night at Bannermans.”
The postcard advertises Bannerman's Bar in Cowgate, Edinburgh Old Town, Julian Bannerman's legendary first venture in 1979, the place where he met his wife Isabel Eustace (it is still there). This is a tour of...
The real thing, Tanya Harrod, essays on making (and Peggy Angus).
Tanya Harrod published 'The Real Thing, essays on making in the modern world,' this week. Its essays are about art, craft and design, and the shifts and spaces in between them.These are subjects she has been...
New year, new build, Bavent House in East Anglia.
Lucy, Clea and Richard Turvill have been here now, in the house they built, for about 5 years. While they lived in London their countrified alter-egos had been well disguised. I thought they were truly metropolitan,...
The Way We Live, Now.
'Nothing much has happened to our house for about 20 years in terms of its look,' says Christina Moore. 'It's not designed although I guess when we first put it together it was. We moved in...
Ian Archie Beck, Elton John and les Frères Perverts.
A family of aesthetes live here, in Thames-side Isleworth to the west of London. These are some clues to their identity. The hanging mugs feature monochrome woodblock vignettes of the Dorset countryside by...
Big Old House, Fen-land.
Richard and Patricia Hewlings live in the Fens, the district known as the Holy land of England. Their house is a flat-fronted, red brick farmhouse with a pretty Georgian doorcase, and an older wing jettying out...
Reminiscences of my visit to Smedmore.
I stayed at lovely Smedmore House in Dorset, settled in its green declivity between ridge-backed Purbeck hills, in May. The first day was grey, with scudding wind and rain, but then the sun came out. This...
John Martin Robinson, Maltravers Herald Extraordinary and architectural historian
This is the London dwelling of John Martin Robinson, aesthete, architectural historian and controversialist. He holds the offices of Maltravers Herald Extraordinary, Librarian to the Duke of Norfolk and Vice Chairman of the Georgian Group (...
Romilly Saumarez Smith, a maker and her house in East London.
From a temporary gallery arranged in the downstairs rooms of her house in Stepney, Romilly Saumarez Smith has just sold her latest jewellery collection. 'That collection is done now, we'll make up the orders but then...
The Englishman’s Room, Gavin Stamp and Anti-Ugly.
The architectural historian and writer Gavin Stamp is one of the 'new Georgians,' pioneers of gentrification who brought up their families in the unloved and unlovely bits of London, where boarded up and multi-occupied old housing...
London Calling.
My friends Bridie Hall and Ben Pentreath are a decorative artist and an architect, both designers and interior designers who also keep an excellent shop, Pentreath and Hall. This week we are doing something together. It's...
Mr. Dodd at home, 2 : Country.
Local children nicknamed this seventeenth century folly 'Mustard-pot Hall.' It stands on the edge of a field in south-eastern England. ALAN DODD has lived here since the 1980s. I was a guest here one weekend about...
Philippa Kunisch, Jeweller.
Philippa Kunisch lives in north London, with her whippet, Moth. Philippa is part Scottish, Moth is from Yorkshire. She bought this lamp from a flea market in America. She bought a...
Joe Hemming, artist, stone carver, part-time shed-dweller.
Joe Hemming carves incised and relief images and lettering in stone, slate and wood, and plays the violin in a string swing band. Home, recycled architectural elements He was brought up in Constantine near...
Ghastly Good Taste? The Best of John Betjeman.
John Betjeman hated experts, antiquarianism, art historians and research fellowships. As his daughter Candida Lycett Green has pointed out, he never set out to champion conservation in the academic sense of that word, but rather to...
The hounds of spring.
'When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces...'Atalanta in Calydon, by Algernon Charles Swinburne. Photography by Liz Neville, www.lizneville.com/ model, Flora Neville, grateful thanks to both. vintage tweed coat by Aquascutum. shot on location in...
Something for the weekend – Barbara Jones.
The King Penguin Guide to the Isle of Wight - a place that I once commuted to each week - was the first book by Barbara Jones that I bought. One of her illustrations shows the...
A.N. Wilson’s Wedgwood.
A.N.Wilson writes: I grew up in North Staffordshire, where my forebears had been potters since the end of the eighteenth century. My brother Stephen and I sometimes look at our hands and think - we are...
In the North Kent Downs: the West Street Tickham’s last meet & Twentieth Century Castles.
Hunt supporters don't carry umbrellas. On March 16th under lead-grey skies and needle-sharp rain the West Street Tickham hunt met for the last time on the gravel in front of Doddington Place in Kent. Lachrymal weather...
‘Nymphs and Shepherds, Come Away’ – Nicky Haslam’s Hunting Lodge.
This week Nicky Haslam's Folly de Grandeur was published. It's the story of the house in which he has lived for over thirty years, told in a prose which is never purple but ever so slightly...
Dark Satanic Mills.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. For my taste, these twin cranes or derricks at Battersea Power Station are the only public art worth pausing for from here to Tate Modern. But they won't...
How Cecil Sharp sowed the seeds of love.
Nothing could be more Romantic than the English Folk tradition as it was revived at the start of the twentieth century. Much of the glory for this belongs to a single character, Cecil Sharp, for whom...
More Spitalfields Life.
Eloise and Will Palin live in an old house in Spitalfields. It was built for a Hugenot silk weaver in 1717, one of the refugees from religious persecution in France who colonised the area then, and...
Thames-side.
A large family grew up in this early nineteenth century villa, standing close to the course of the Thames where it runs into London from the west. Most of these children have come of age but...
The past in black, white and sepia.
My grandmother is the one near the middle, sidesaddle on the donkey like a small, shaggy camel. The caption of the picture, if there were one, would be 'Haymaking in Bierton,' a ceremonial harvest home when...
Sue and David Gentleman.
The artist David Gentleman and his wife Sue have lived in the same north London house, in the hinterland between Camden Market and Regent's Park, since 1971. I have never seen it untidy, it is always...
What to do in Walton-on-the-Naze in Winter.
Have you ever been to Walton on the Naze? Like its sister resort of Clacton on Sea it has a long (790 metre) pier with fairground amusements and fishermen casting lines fruitlessly into the grey-green swell....
At home in West Dorset, John and Julia de Pauley.
John and Julia de Pauley and their two daughters live in Bridport, a market town next to the west Dorset coast. These photographs were taken on a broiling day towards the end of last summer. ...
The Nativity comes to Kentish Town (II), Epiphany.
Saturday January 5th. This was the scene at the Church of St. Silas in Kentish Town yesterday evening, where the Christmas Crib was being reordered for the feast of the Epiphany today, when the three Magi...
In Camden Town.
This is the Camden Town desk from which the bible of british taste is published each week. There are many good things about living in NW1, but for years now all my old affection for the...
The Nativity comes to Kentish Town, (I).
At All Hallow's Church, Savernake Road, on the south eastern corner of Hampstead Heath, Father David Houlding started the business of decorating his church on Wednesday. Today, Sunday December 23rd, is 'Advent IV,' the fourth Sunday...
Portabello interiors.
A tall stuccoed house in west London near the Portobello Road. The present owner has lived there since 1971 when the banister rail running from top to bottom was painted bright green, a colour favoured by...
Beautiful Britain ? Roche Rock.
Hundreds of picture have been taken of Roche Rock looking sublime and Romantic, like this. The granite chapel on the outcrop is roofless now, reached by a vertical iron ladder embedded in the side of...
Stephen Medcalf’s books.
Just after bonfire night in 1989, Stephen Medcalf, who was tickled by the idea of being photographed at home, wrote to me , 'I do not promise not to tidy it a bit ... a clergyman...
Breon O’Casey, painter, sculptor, (d.2011).
Breon O’Casey, who died last year, never courted or followed fashion, but rather turned his back on it. Throughout the 60s and early 70s he was part of the complicated jigsaw puzzle picture that was the...
At Boleigh Farm.
Deryck and David Eddy and their mother Marion live at Boleigh Farm, where they have been looking after the dairy herd since they were schoolboys. A little way along the road is a stone...
Virginia White at home.
Virginia White is an art collector who works as an interior designer. She is a brilliant colourist. She likes Kettles Yard and the St. Ives painters especially. The last room in this sequence belongs to her...
‘My Guy’ Fawkes.
Nothing you can say, Can tear me away, From My Guy. Nothing you could do, 'Cause I'm stuck like glue, To My Guy. I'm sticking to My Guy, Like a stamp to...
The National Collection of dahlias.
Winter is icumen in fast, now, over the dahlia meadow at Varfell Farm, where they keep the national collection, blackening the edges of leaves and petals. Over 275 miles off from London, it is a comparatively...
Sir Jonathan Miller, artworks.
Jonathan Miller has shown his formalist, Modernist sculptures at Flowers East, the Boundary Gallery and Danny Katz's Gallery in the West End of London. Jonathan Miller, Portrait of the Artist At Home, 2012 (homage to...
Summer Season interval at Grange Park Opera.
Far, far, far more beautiful than Glyndebourne and so much nicer than Garsington, with patron Lord Ashburton and his impresario Wasfi Kani on stage before curtain up, fundraising for the next season. No tax payers money...
Agricultural-theme wedding in Honiton, Devon.
Wedding March - 'I've got a brand new combine harvester ... '.... wishing them great happiness [All images : copyright bibleofbritishtaste.com ]
Blackpool Illuminations For Sale.
This enormous, circa 4 foot high Peacock head which lit up the sky on the Blackpool seafront for many years is now for sale with Malcolm Glickstein at : Relic Antiques, 133-135, Pancras Road, London, NW1...
Dr. Feelgood theme birthday cake, tablecloth by David Hockney.
Plate by Wedgwood, from a dinner service made for His Majesty Farouk I, by the Grace of God, King of Egypt and Sudan, Sovereign of Nubia, of Kordofan and of Darfur 'Summer Sky'...
Barbour – Green is the colour.
Black Barbour jackets are on trend in Cobham, Crouch End and the Cotswolds. That's why you should stick to your old green one. [All images : copyright bibleofbritishtaste.com ]
Huntin’ table.
Bombadier beer by Wells and Young at the Eagle Brewery Bedford and 20 Woodbines. [All images : copyright bibleofbritishtaste.com ]
Rose Hilton’s studio in Newlyn, West Penwith.
Rose Hilton paints every day in her studio in Newlyn. Her retrospective show was at Tate St. Ives in 2008. One of a large family brought up in the Plymouth Brethren, she was a prize winning...
Buck the Trend. Epitaph added, December 2014.
- and live happily ever after the end. [All images : copyright bibleofbritishtaste.com ] Epitaph for a lovely house, a work of genius that was also...
The Anthony Shaw Collection.
Every surface on the lower floors of the small terraced house in which Anthony Shaw grew up used to display pieces from his collection. They were even on the kitchen worktops next to the toaster, but...
The Royal Cornwall Show beats everything.
Merry-go-rounds, Britain in Bloom, flower arranging, garden-in-a-box, huntsmen, otter hounds, prize winning holsteins, tractors, morris men. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7...
At St. Buryan Church in West Penwith.
There are three or four new ‘kneelers’ – the flat cushions that preserve the knees of the devout – in the pews at St. Buryan Church every year. Shelia Hosking began making them in 1982....
No Life without Trees : Ann Stokes, potter.
Ann Stokes (b.1922) began making these trees about half a dozen years ago, ceramic trunks which grow upwards, section by section, and branches with a bosky canopy, each leaf of which she cuts out by...
A Farewell to Hanham Court.
Julian and Isabel Bannerman, Ismay, Rex and Bertie don’t live at Hanham Court any more. When they gave their farewell party last summer the gardens for which they and Hanham have become justly famous were at...
Alice Pattullo, artist and designer.
Alice is an artist and printmaker whose work is firmly vested in the very best traditions of twentieth century design and illustration. She knows about and sees the point of Barbara Jones, Edward Bawden, Eric Ravilious...
Roy Conn, b.1931, artist presently living in St. Ives.
Roy Conn's early training was in structural engineering but by his mid twenties he was painting instead. In the 1950s he showed with the London Group (along with Victor Pasmore, Kenneth and Mary Martin and others)...
Mr. Dodd at home, 1 : London.
ALAN DODD was born in Kent in 1942. He attended Ashford Grammar School, Maidstone College of Art (where David Hockney was one of his teachers) and then the Painting School at the Royal Academy. By the...
The best hand-made wallpaper in the world is by Marthe Armitage.
Marthe Armitage studied painting at Chelsea School of Art just after the war. When marriage and motherhood interrupted she laid down her brush, but then in the 60s she and her architect husband wanted to live...
