creative spaces :: jailmake
I have a flyer pinned up above my desk. It says things like “Practice until you’re great – then be better,” “Climb trees” and “Be tired at the end of every day.” I find it inspiring, not least because I can always say I’ve achieved the latter of those three! The flyer is for 3D...
creative spaces :: lovely pigeon
I love seeing creative people’s working spaces. I think you can tell a lot about a person by the space they work in, and I think you often see the influences of a space coming through into people’s work. This is especially true of Kirsty Thomas aka the Lovely Pigeon. It really is as if her...
photos of numbers :: 11, 2, 60a, 60, 62, 64 & 66
Hello and happy Friday! I’ve been very excited about sharing these numbers with you, since I spotted two of them in one day! It was a good day for photos of numbers! The first one is on the door of the shared studio space that textiles designer Emma Shipley calls home. I was there to interview...
creative spaces :: designersblock
Designersblock have been camping in this disused pub “until September” for eleven years. Co-founder Piers Robers has even lived here for much of that time. The pub closed in 1994 and because it is the only example of Victorian architecture on the street, isn’t allowed to be knocked down. It is owned by the Geffrye...
creative spaces :: clarissa hulse
I was recently very lucky to be invited to Clarissa Hulse‘s North London studio to screenprint my very own Clarissa Hulse cushion – what a fantastic way to spend a Thursday morning! Her studio is spacious, light-filled and, as you’d expect, a riot of colour, so while I was there, I thought I’d shoot a creative...
creative spaces :: linda bloomfield
I love Linda Bloomfield’s work, especially her gorgeous teaset. Her products are perfectly formed to fit the human hand, incredibly tactile and well designed – the teapot pours perfectly without spilling a drop. So it is with great pleasure that I present a little look around the studio where it all happens. Linda hand throws...
creative spaces :: chase and wonder
Chase and Wonder make gorgeous screenprinted stationery and home accessories from a converted cowshed in rural Worcestershire. Well, if that’s not worth a creative spaces post, I don’t know what is! It was a shell when they found it, no electricity, no wall panels – it didn’t even have flooring. Having bravely evicted the spiders,...
creative spaces :: people will always need plates
It’s no secret that I love People Will Always Need Plates, so I was very excited when they kindly invited me to see their studio, which is nestled in the top of their gorgeous home. After tea and homemade cookies (oh yes!), we headed up for an explore. The first challenge is to navigate the...
creative spaces :: alexandra abraham
Alexandra sees the beauty in things others have discarded. She collects them, she arranges them, she covers them in gold leaf and then rubs it away, and in doing so reveals the beauty she first spied in the mud or the sand, so that we can see it too.
creative spaces :: wimbledon art studios
For the latest in my series of creative spaces features, artist Fiona Brown very kindly invited me along to see her space at Wimbledon Art Studios and suggested I time my visit to coincide with Open Studios weekend so I could also get a look those of her fellow artists.
creative spaces :: ian lettice
Ian first noticed the building that is now his studio when helping out with the local scouts. Once a bomb shelter to the factory building that is now the scout hut, its door hadn't been opened for 20 years.
creative spaces :: emma bond
This month's creative spaces post features the enchantingly titled "Orchard Studio;" home to Emma Bond's garden design business. The wonderful photography is all by Emma herself.
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