Cream Wall Hanging - Moderne caramel detailing on an emerald

caramel detailing on an emerald silk velvet background makes for a particularly English colourway that somehow manages to be both traditional and arresting

A combination of our ‘unconscious’ painting style – which uses graceful

Inspired by Gustav Klimt and the Vienna Secession

Having acquired around 400 coloured prints of European birds created from works painted by French ornithological artists in the 1950s

These mixed-media paintings on board-mounted canvas employ layered pigment washes over gesso grounds

Cream Wall Hanging - Moderne caramel detailing on an emeraldOur Moderne collection is a paean to the bold, quirky, folksy pottery coming out of the French town of Vallauris in the 1960s and 70s. Here we have reimagined the joyously abstract forms associated with this period of ceramics as a large scale tapestry wall hanging. When weaving at scale one is forced to use wool from several dye batches, which will vary somewhat in colour. We have encouraged our embroiderers to embrace these natural deviations with