Tiny Treasures in the Yorkshire Post magazine

I totally missed this feature when it was in print in the Yorkshire Post magazine in July but I just managed to get hold of this PDF showing my Tiny Treasures book and wallpaper. I'm always grateful to the Yorkshire Post. Sharon Dale who writes for them has been a huge supporter over the years and has featured my work many times. It has helped to spread my work across the county.

Featured in Elle Deco

 I have been drooling over the pages of Elle Decoration magazine for years so you can imagine my excitement when I heard I was going to be in it!

It's all thanks to Abigail Edwards and her new Quiet Pattern book which I wrote about a couple of posts back. 

Elle Deco have featured all the British designers which are in the book so you can read about Abigail and the inspiration behind the book, Mineheart (I met them at the book launch and they are SO lovely)

and Daniel Heath who screen prints his wallpapers so skilfully.

The beautiful photographs are by Alun Callender.

It's in the June issue on the shelves now.

TEN at Arteria

Another lovely thing about yesterdays trip to visit the fabric factory in Lancaster was popping into Arteria Gallery. 

I wanted to see their TEN exhibition. They are celebrating having been open for ten years and exhibiting all the artists they have been selling in the shop for that long. Myself included.

It's a lovely space and so nice to see it after working with them for so long. 

Sharon welcomed me with a big hug and a cuppa. I love the craft world I am lucky to be a part of!

I loved that they had made origami tulips out of my wallpaper

and rolled up my samples in a pretty jar.

It was altogether lovely. I wonder what the next ten years will bring.

Gardens Illustrated

Happy new year! I'm in the studio pottering about and warming up for the year ahead. I got off to a good start with a beautiful wallpaper feature in Gardens Illustrated magazine. I have always wanted to be in this gorgeous publication and I'm very chuffed to have a whole page. Lucky me :)

Yorkshire Post feature

The Yorkshire Post has been really good to me over the years and featured lots of my work and Radiance products too. Today my wallpaper is featured in the magazine. 

Customers have been requesting samples as a result already. 

Good work Yorkshire Post. Thankyou so much x

Mathilde Heart Manech interview

I have a sweet interview over on the Matilde Heart Manech blog today. Lisa came to my studio for a cuppa and a chat and she took some cute photos. Nip over and visit her beautiful blog.

Horse & Countryside

This month I've been featured in Horse & Countryside magazine. 

When they phoned me up i did hear 'HOUSE & Countryside'. Horse magazines are a new one for me. 

The interview is all about how a city girl (me) found the countryside to be the inspiration for her work. And they gave me a fabulous six page spread full of Sarah's lovely photos :)

Now I'm feeling the need to go for a trek...

Twilight magic in the woods

I have been soooooo excited to share this with you. In July I was contacted by Pretty Nostalgic Magazine and asked if I'd like to style and write and article about British lighting designers. They envisioned a feature with 6-8 designers lights photographed in the woods at twilight. Oh my goodness. I immediately squealed across the studio 'Sarah Mason Sarah Mason Sarah Mason, come quick, we've got the most exciting job to do!'. 

And so the planning began. Where were we going to do it? How were we going to light all the lights? How would we get everything we needed to the woods? Can we fit ladders in the car? Who's good at climbing trees? We thought, being surrounded by woodland that it would be easy to find a location but it was trickier than anticipated. We needed somewhere accessible by car and with low hanging trees. Emily Jones our lovely friend who runs The Tinderwood Trust Forest School came to the rescue and introduced us to the perfect spot and we got permission from the land owner to use it. Phew!

So. Ready to roll. Euan, Ffion, Will, Suzi and Robert all helped out...many hands make light work as they say. 

It was a challenge. You see this shot? Beautiful Jennifer Collier paper shades just about ready to shoot. Well this was moments before a rain storm. Yes it had been beautiful all summer and then the week we planned the shoot was the week of thunderous downpours and flooding. We had to bundle everything under a tarpaulin and wait for the rain to stop (ages). We all trundled out of the woods in the dark with soggy lampshades and heavy hearts :(

But we bounced back to the woods again the next night and knew exactly what we were doing the second time round.

I found these brilliant battery powered LED egg lights shaped like bulbs and attached them to black cable which we tied to the branches. An absolutely perfect simple solution. 

It really was magic. The lights looked utterly beautiful in this woodland setting. 

 Here's the photographer at work!

The wood grain of the Jane Blease wall lights looked fantastic on the tree trunk

and the Tom Raffields looked so at home in the woods. 

This little silver birch had the perfect bendy trunk and enjoyed being adorned in Deryn Relph and Beau Vamp lampshades.

Look at them glow. 

The Sarah Lock lamps looked amazing among the mossy rocks.

Amy Coopers were next. They had been to the woods with us each evening but they hadn't quite found their spot...

until Ffion spotted this bank of mushrooms where they nestled in perfectly.

The Colins (as we call them) were sooooo beautiful. I really didn't want to take them down afterwards. 

In fact I think they should all stay in the woods all the time. I want to be able to take a twilight stroll and come upon these beautiful lights and feel their magic again. It was joyful.

It looks wonderful in print in this beautiful smelling magazine! Issue 9 of Pretty Nostalgic is out in the shops now or you can buy it on their lovely new website. It's a lovely magazine and we're really pleased to be a part of it.

Thanks to Ffion for the behind the scenes shots and thanks for everyone who played a part in bringing this project together. Couldn't have done it without you x

Pretty Nostalgic

It was lovely to be asked to write a little piece for Pretty Nostalgic magazine about the joys of visiting an arts trail. The editor got in contact after reading my blog post about the Saltaire Arts Trail a while back. 

It's a new magazine to me. I had heard of it but hadn't yet held a copy in my hands and flicked through it's beautifully laid out and nice smelling pages. It's really really pretty. 

And there just so happened to be a feature all about Hebden Bridge in this issue too which was a bonus.

Look there is our very own Lucy Conroy from Lucy and The Caterpillar!

It's lovely to be a part of another quality publication....so I will forgive them calling me Hannah Hunn haha (I quite like it). Look out for it in the shops. This one is issue 8.

My visit to the wallpaper factory in MOYO magazine

The new issue of the beautiful Moyo (it means pattern in Japanese) magazine is out today and I'm so happy that on page 40 is an article I have written them  all about my trip to the wallpaper factory.

This is the first spread. They have styled it so beautifully. If you haven't seen this magazine before it is all about surface pattern - creating it, selling it and enjoying it. Issue 4 is 'The Paper Issue' and there's lots of inspiring things to read about!

Click here to have a read.

Thankyou MOYO magazine :)

Featured in Made in Paper

Today my studio is featured in a brand new lovely magazine called Made in Paper. It's a sister magazine of the beautiful Simple Things magazine so when they emailed me to ask if they could do a feature I was excited because I just KNEW it would be beautiful!

On a very very sunny day in January me and Sarah had some fun doing a studio photoshoot knowing that on March the 21st we'd see the pictures in a pretty magazine.

There's a Q&A too so you can find out more about me and my studio.

They have excelled themselves again. 

The pages are full of beautifully put together, colourful, papery projects and ideas

and interviews with paper artists from around the world.

I spotted Cecilia Levy (i love her work) and the lovely Jennifer Collier too. 

Made in Paper is for sale in the UK, the U.S and Australia so look out for it or you can order it from Future Publications.