On the Colour Couch
On the Colour Couch with Interiors Photographer James Balston
James and I met back in 2011 when I used a series of his photographs for my chapter on Colour in Interiors for the industry text book Colour Design: Theories and Applications. We’ve kept in touch crossing paths many times at design industry events and earlier this year at the Crystal Palace Artists’ Open House,…
Read MoreOn the Colour Couch with The Colour File’s Martha Roberts
Martha (from The Colour File) and I first met when she was writing a colour column for Psychologies magazine and she emailed me to ask if she could ask me some questions. This became a monthly chat with each new colour she was exploring and I’d shared my insights into what different colours meant from…
Read MoreOn the Colour Couch with colour lover Erica Vonderwall
I must confess I do enjoy searching out colourful posts on Instagram. And I love it even more when I find other colour lovers. I stumbled across Erica Vonderwall’s IG page and when I saw that she loved colour and travelling, which are two of my great passions, well I knew I just had to…
Read MoreOn the Colour Couch with Interior Stylist Emma Merry
It was thanks to the lovely Marianne Shillingford, Creative Director Dulux who suggested to Emma she get in touch with me given we are both colour lovers. After our first chat we both knew we’d be friends. Emma just loves bold colour and yet her least favourite colour is lime green. Let’s jump in to…
Read MoreOn the Colour Couch with design writer and blogger Stacey Sheppard
As you’ll find out later in this interview Stacey and I met back in 2011 when she enlisted my help as an applied colour psychology specialist for her award winning blog, The Design Sheppard, to help her “understand colour better and the effects that it can have on our moods.” Since that first blog on…
Read MoreOn the Colour Couch with journalist and author Kate Watson-Smyth
I first met Kate back in 2015 when she emailed me asking if she could interview me for her book, Shades of Grey (not that one, the interior one) on the psychology of grey. Well, we all know how well that book turned out and the rise of grey. When I contacted Kate to see…
Read MoreOn the Colour Couch with colour lover Louisa Rogers
I met Louisa a few years ago when I was first asked to give a talk for the Colour Collective UK (initially a sister organisation of the Colour Group Great Britain) for which Louisa is a founding member, so you could say we met through colour! Louisa is an avid colour lover which is clearly…
Read MoreOn the Colour Couch with interior stylist Emma Morton-Turner
Late September I was over at Emma’s place to record an episode of her fabulous and popular Inside Stylists Podcast where we were talking all things colour and to discuss the upcoming Stylish Supper Club colour talk. Being the great colour lover that she is and working with colour every single day as an interior…
Read MoreOn the Colour Couch with florist Bridget Davidson
I ‘met’ Bridget on Instagram having fallen in love with her natural, organic award winning floristry styling with the perfect hashtag #shestylesthewild. So join me on a colourful journey into why Bridget can’t live without colour in her life… What is your earliest colour memory? When my sister Jo was 6 and I was 4,…
Read MoreOn the Colour Couch with colour lover Kim Baeten-Schouten
I often find myself going down the colourful rabbit hole that is Instagram. The joy of this is finding colour lovers from around the world. And Kim Baeten-Schouten from The Netherlands describes herself as “a beautician who loves to style her life in colour”. What is your earliest colour memory? That my mum would take…
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