Katy Botanicals in Stockbridge

Katy Botanicals pop up shop will be returning to Stockbridge Town Hall on Thursday 18th and Friday 19th May.

We’re visiting for two days, Thursday and Friday, May 18th and 19th, straight after the farmer’s market closes at lunchtime on Thursday, then all day Friday (9.30-5.00), and I’ll be there all day to answer questions about upholstery and talk about painting projects.

We have some lovely new products to show off, as well as the old favourites like tea towels, and I’ve been painting away as the spring flowers are appearing so there’ll be some art to buy too.

Stockbridge is looking gorgeous with trout in the streams and new coffee shops opening, so I very much look forward to seeing you there!

Stockbridge Town Hall

Stockbridge High Street

Stockbridge

Test Vally

Hampshire

SO20 6HE

Thursday 18th and Friday 19th May

Back to painting murals

Now the lovely Hampshire Open Studios show is over, I’m lucky enough to be embarking on a beautiful mural for the entrance hall of a gorgeous home in Hampshire.

This high ceilinged hall will be filled with lavender, buddleja, cornflowers and all sorts for gorgeous fragrant planting.

The planning and experimentation is as fun as the painting itself, as I always try and fit in as much as I can from the gardens surrounding the house or location, and of course as many plants and insects and birds that are important or significant to those who will be enjoying it.

At the end of first stage of painting, when the mural has been planned and mapped out on the wall, then the fun starts and I can hide all manner of bugs, secrets and mementos in the leaves and blooms that cover those walls.

I’ll keep you updated as I paint!

Hampshire Open Studios 2020

Hampshire Open Studios was great fun.

Lots of guests and lots of feedback. There was great interest in how I create my designs, so I’ve put tougher this vide displaying some artwork, the fabric designs with some original working drawings and some murals.

Do tell me what you think. Feedback is always useful.

Katy x

Fabrics

In time for Hampshire Open Studios, my fabrics have arrived.

I’m so excited. They are so beautiful.

Each fabric design uses or is based on one of my paintings. The paintings are all originals and can be hung on the wall. The fabrics are being printed on both cotton canvas and on furnishing velvet.

More designs to follow, and available in my shop soon.

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Fern furnishing velvet, sage background

Hellebore stripe