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What’s inside Rebecca’s Cupboard?

Win a Rebecca's Cupboard kitchen set from Kate Guy

Hello, and welcome to our last competition of 2019 – where did the year go? This month, we have a kitchen textile bundle that’s worthy of a domestic goddess… or god, for that matter!

The set – that comes complements of printmaker, Kate Guy – comprises an organic cotton tea towel, tote bag and apron in Kate’s gorgeous Rebecca’s Cupboard design.

Kate Guy's 'Rebecca's Cupboard' textile pattern

Kate explains the inspiration behind her Rebecca’s Cupboard print:

The design is a linocut print I made of a friend’s kitchen shelves, she lives in the South of France and is an excellent cook. They grow a lot of their own produce and so she also makes lots of preserves and pickles. They have a small vineyard and make their own wine and grape juice, her husband is a keen forager; always coming home with wild mushrooms, asparagus and other local delicacies in season. Her daughter keeps bees and makes her own honey and her son is a keen fisherman, often providing a fresh wild caught trout for the lunch table. This rustic idyll is captured in this print.

If you’d love to win the bundle, tell us in our comments section below who tackles the kitchen chores in your house.

Rebecca’s Cupboard kitchen textile bundle

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Designer Desire: John Petts

Montage of John Petts artworks | H is for Home

John Petts (1914-1991) was a London-born painter, wood engraver, lino-cutter and stained glass artist.

In 1937, Petts and his first wife, Brenda Chamberlain, (whom he met while they were both students at the Royal Academy) bought a hand press and founded Caseg Press at Ty’r mynydd, Llanllechid, Caenarvonshire. They drew on the dramatic landscape of Snowdonia for its inspiration. Initially, they produced Christmas cards and later illustrations for periodicals such as The Welsh Review (1939–1948).

Following a bombing in 1963 of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama by Ku Klux Klan members which killed four black girls attending Sunday school, Petts vowed to design and produce a replacement. After successfully raising funds from tens of thousands of people in Wales with the help of a front-page campaign by Western Mail newspaper, Petts delivered the finished window to the church in 1965.

Published in 2000, John Petts and the Caseg Press by Alison Smith is the first monograph of the artist.

In 1979, he designed the stained glass window, The Desert Shall Rejoice and Blossom followed by, in 1987, The Tree of Life both situated in the Church of St Peter, Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire.

Portrait of John Pettscredit

Additional image credits:

Art UK | Martin Tinney Gallery | Stained Glass in Wales

Designer Desire: Peter Clayton, fine artist

Mosaic of works by Peter Clayton, fine artist | H is for Home

Last week, when I was searching for examples of illustrator, Peter Clayton‘s work I came across another artist – Peter Clayton, fine artist!

The latter’s work is completely different but equally eye-catching. This week’s Peter Clayton works primarily in mixed media, silkscreen and lino-cut. His subject matter covers urban, rural and coastal landscapes and architecture.

Peter Clayton is Lancashire-born and, since the 1980s, has been practising and teaching in Leicester. He has been commissioned by P&O, Faber & Faber and Rugby Art Gallery and Museum and has been Artist in Residence in Grizedale Forest in the Lake District.

Portrait of Peter Clayton, fine artist - © Katharine Brown

Image credits:

Bircham Gallery | Culture24 | Leicester Society of Artists | Tarpey Gallery

Designer Desire: Edward Bawden

Mosaic of Edward Bawden artworks | H is for Home
Edward Bawden (1903–1989) had a long and industrious career producing designs for lots of prestigious clients; companies such as London Transport, Fortnum & Mason, Penguin Books, Poole Potteries, Twinings, the Folio Society and Westminster Bank.

He designed of the Observer Newspaper’s ‘Puzzled Lion and Startled Unicorn’ which adorned their masthead for 50 years. He was an official war artist during the 2nd World War, recording scenes across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.

I love his lino-cuts of Brighton landmarks – a couple of which I’ve included above – including the Palace Pier and the Royal Pavilion.

There’s an exhibition of a number of his works taking place at the Dulwich Picture Gallery from 23 May to 9 September 2018 if you can get down there. Here’s a little preview…

A new book featuring Bawden’s book cover designs is due for publication next month (April 2018) entitled, Are you Sitting Comfortably? The Book Jackets of Edward Bawden. There’s another limited-edition book, Entertaining a la carte: Edward Bawden and Fortnum & Mason, that I’d love to add to our art & design book collection – available from a cool £235.00!

Portrait of Edward Bawdencredit

Additional image credits:

Invaluable | St Jude’s