Simon palmer

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After studying and working in graphic design, illustration and the print industry for 25 years, Paul has been a self-taught, full-time professional artist for the past two decades. Based in the southw

When I was aged 10, the farmers used to come round the schools to pick volunteers to work on the farms during the summer holidays, mainly to help bring in the harvest. The country was still building u

After studying and working in graphic design, illustration and the print industry for 25 years, Paul has been a self-taught, full-time professional artist for the past two decades. Based in the southw

Natural perennial planting, with light-diffusing grasses and pools of burnished colour, has elevated a relaxed Sussex farmhouse plot

Clutter-free grandeur How the artist changed her untidy ways to create a stately studio workspace