Horatio’s Garden Fabric Collaboration and details of our upcoming Hampshire Open Studios Exhibition
Our award winning fabric design for RHS Chelsea is now available to buy
Our new tablecloth, designed in collaboration with Horatio’s Garden
It’s nearly the weekend and the sun is shining. How is your garden faring through this long summer? My dahlias and cosmos are busily blooming and there are more plums than I know what to do with.
Some lovely news to share with you - I’m very excited to announce that I’m collaborating with Horatio’s Garden Spinal Unit charity to create two beautiful products inspired by our award winning flower show stand design at this year’s RHS Chelsea.
I’ve already been working with Horatio’s Garden for several years now, providing artistic workshops in our South West garden, based in Salisbury, as part of the arts programme the charity delivers for people with spinal injuries.
To my great excitement, in the spring of 2025 Horatio’s Garden commissioned me to design the backdrop for our RHS Chelsea Flower Show trade stand. The trade stand was created by acclaimed landscape designer Bunny Guinness, and as part of the design she wanted to cover the stand walls in a beautiful floral design in keeping with her planting scheme and to my great delight Horatio’s Garden thought of me!
The stand design won a whopping 5 stars at the flower show and I’m now thrilled to now be able to reproduce the Chelsea stand design as both a wall panel and a tablecloth. With 25% of the purchase price going to Horatio’s Garden this is a partnership made in floral heaven.
The floral panels fit seamlessly together, creating a beautiful endless meadow curtain, or each panel can be used as a single wall hanging. We can even print this design as a wallpaper.
The linen is already available on the website and the tablecloth is soon to be launched. Watch this space for more!
Details and directions for our HOS exhibition
What are you up to over the bank holiday weekend?
I’m hosting my only exhibition this year, as part of Hampshire Open Studios 2025. As I mentioned in our last newsletter, I’m hosting with the brilliant landscape artist, Ben Winter and we’ll be open at The Old Post Office from 10.00 on Friday 22nd (next Friday) until 5.00 on Monday 25th.
It would be great to see you. If you’d like to come and buy some original art from myself and @benwinterart, or to discuss projects, fabrics, wallpapers, and have a look at my printed homewares, the doors will be open from 10.00 each day and we’ll even have cake to tempt you in.
To find us and for more amazing artists to add to your Open Studios day out visit the Hampshire Open Studios website.
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