On the Colour Couch
On 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…
Read MoreOn the Colour Couch with textile designer Susi Bellamy
I first met Susi around five years ago when we were both on the Colour Group GB committee. At that time Susi and her family had recently returned to the UK from living in sunny Tuscany with all its glorious colours. Since then we’ve become great friends staying at each others homes and talking colour…
Read MoreOn the Colour Couch with Dulux Creative Director Marianne Shillingford
What a joy it is to introduce you to Marianne Shillingford. For those of you who are yet to meet her, Marianne is the Senior Creative Director at Dulux and one of the kindest people in the colour industry devoting a lot of her own time to a charity she has set up called the…
Read MoreOn the Colour Couch with colourful retailer Laura Smith
Meet the lovely Laura Smith who is the owner of LIFE is better in COLOUR who by her own admission is “doing my best to make life more colourful!… for people who live on the bright side of life.” Let’s delve into Laura’s life in colour and her great advice for anyone who is afraid…
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