Natural medium illuminates art

As a young girl, Polly Nicolaou was almost always to be found with her playthings under the kitchen table, such that her uncle would often sing, using her middle name: “Polly Mabel, under the kitchen

This month, get creative with patterned fabrics and wallpapers, make everlasting paper flowers and invest in some quality bed linen or tableware

Craftswoman Katy Eccles has perfected the art of making enduring plaster castings of fleeting and ephemeral garden-gathered or foraged flora

Today’s gardeners can take digital photographs of plants in the blink of an eye. But horticulturally trained cyanotype artist Sophie Cook has returned to photography’s analogue beginnings, working wit

After illness forced Louise Watson to give up her job as a teacher, she turned to embroidery. Now, she embraces the slow art of sewing as part of a more meditative way of life

A gentle renovation and a relaxed decorative approach has seen Marie Cottrell’s much-loved family home return to its past glory