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Dyed in the wool

Farming and fashion do not normally sit naturally together, but knitwear designer Harriet Miller and her partner, conservation farmer Will Lawrence, have combined their skills to create chemical free, naturally dyed and locally spun jumpers...

Conversation is Collaboration

The Norwegian-born, Paris-based knitwear designer Siri Johansen of Waste Yarn Project met artist Celia Pym on the fifth floor of the Royal College of Art in 2007. Johansen was studying men’s knitwear and Pym, who was enrolled on the mixed media textiles course, had just started the mending practice for which she has become renowned. The pair have been engaged in a constant, long-form creative exchange ever since. Theirs is a friendship fuelled by creativity and curiosity. 

The Daily Grind

Inspired largely by the fresco technique of Rajasthan, artist Muirne Kate Dineen’s principle passion is ‘building colour’ – grinding the raw ingredients to mix the pigments in her London studio

Seeing the light with Piet Mondrian and Hilma Af Klint

In the basement depot of the impressive Art Deco Kunstmuseum in The Hague, the Netherlands, there are racks upon racks of artworks. The stores and archives of galleries and museums are extraordinary places, the gritty engine rooms of the polished, minimal spaces we usually associate with seeing art. Here, among the empty frames and the metal grids used to store hundreds of paintings cheek by jowl, there is something quite thrilling about coming face to face with a painting like Piet Mondrian’s Red Amaryllis with Blue Background, painted in 1907 as one in a series of single flower portraits (around 200 of them still exist)  he was to make over his lifetime.

She Sells Sanctuary

You know your tea. But a day spent with Henrietta Lovell – aka the Rare Tea Lady– is enough to prove you’ve been doing it all wrong. As she advises Noma on the perfect accompaniment to their award-winning menu, we join her to discover that reading the leaves is all about how tea makes you feel. Prepare for a stirring experience...

The Constant Gardener

Having saved the Royate Hill allotments from development, Mike Feingold has worked tirelessly to turn them into an urban paradise packed with produce for all to enjoy. How does he do it? A cup of coffee and a fag every morning, he says…

Soundwaves

From the archive: this story was published in Issue 23, published in the Summer of  2022 In its magical Cornish setting, the International Musicians Seminar Prussia Cove celebrates 50 years of nurturing, teaching, supporting and encouraging string players from all over the world. Travel east along the coast from Penzance and pass the fairytale tidal island of St Michael’s Mount. Past the village of Marazion, you'll find a series of lanes that slowly carry you down to a coastline dotted with smugglers' bays. Here you'll find stunning sights, but also stunning sounds for three weeks every April.

Land Girls

Molly and Bethan Lewis live and work on a remote and beautiful farm in Powys with their father, Robert. They describe why they love a job that means working 365 days a year come rain, sleet and snow.

Making Mischief

Simon Costin talks about the magic of vernacular folk costumes and the making of a new exhibition celebrating the craft, creativity and community

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