Sharon Ingoldby takes furniture painting to a new level, transforming old and neglected pieces with charming folk art-inspired pattern and colour

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Artist Elaine Murray, 55, from Lyme Regis, shares how creating memorial art has helped people reconnect with those they’ve lost

The city home of textile designer Susi Bellamy is the ideal canvas to showcase her instinct for combining colour and pattern in the most unique and vibrant way

Musicians, astronomers and artists all played a part in the story of this historic Surrey Hills home, which has begun a new chapter with the help of design studio Gunter & Co

For artist Nellie Shepherd, the landscape outside her painstakingly renovated farmhouse is just as important as the colourful scene inside it