Blackwell -The Arts & Crafts House, Windemere, Cumbria

Designed by architect Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott in 1898.
Baillie Scott would select one motif, such as a flower, to symbolize a room and create a cohesive design. In Houses and Gardens he explained how the rowan tree was ‘specifically desired as the subject for decoration’ because it featured in the Holt family crest. The rowan tree appears in Blackwell’s stained glass windows, woodcarvings, plasterwork and wall coverings.

A quotation from Willian Morris:
” Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.”
The Beauty of Life – 1880

Arts and Crafts artists and supporters were passionate about keeping traditional handicrafts alive during the early days of mass production. They believed a world built by machines would lack soul.

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Blackwell -The Arts & Crafts House, Windemere,Cumbria

This beautiful house in Cumbria was designed by architect Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott in 1898. He defined craftsmanship as being
“The love of a workman for his work is the essential difference between the lifeless commercial product and the vital work of art.”
The Studio – 1895

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New work for Open Studios

‘Oyster Platters’
Since moving to Brighton my work has become far more organic as I am inspired by the beauty of the Sussex coastline and landscape.