OUR JOURNAL
Notes from the studio and the archive – new designs in progress, conversations with the artists behind them, and the odd diversion into what’s inspired us along the way. Since 2005, St Jude’s has worked with artists including Angie Lewin, Mark Hearld and Emily Sutton to translate their linocuts, wood engravings and drawings into fabrics and wallpapers. These pages explore the stories behind that work: the original prints, the places and collections that shaped them, and the craft of bringing each one to the wall or the window.
In 1989, shortly after Edward Bawden’s death, photographer Roy Hammans spent a December day recording the artist’s Saffron Walden home. We share a wider selection of his images here, alongside four...
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Angie Lewin’s Clover design began as a small wood engraving made for a 2014 exhibition in aid of honey bees. Here we trace its development from linocut to fabric and wallpaper, with photographs of ...
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In 2018, Mark Hearld was invited to reimagine the British Folk Art Collection at Compton Verney. Alongside new work of his own, he designed a wallpaper to link the galleries with the house and its ...
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