SINGING THE BLUES

Artist Mark Hearld’s energetic artworks of birds and animals have been translated onto fabrics and papers for St Jude’s. The confident strength of the Bantam Bough linen works well as a focal point in a simply decorated blue sitting room. Large-scale desi

Above: walls painted in Parma Gray Estate

emulsion, £45/2.5L; woodwork in eggshell,

£25/750ml: both Farrow & Ball. Floor in Dark Lead

floorpaint, £65/2.5L, Little Greene. Wooden chairs,

junk shop finds; painted in Teresa’s Green eggshell,

£25/750ml, Farrow & Ball. Table painted in All White Estate emulsion, £45/2.5L, Farrow & Ball. Seagrass rush matting, from £50, Pentreath & Hall. On table:

Tea towel, £18, Baileys. Mugs, £14.50 each, sugar bowl, £18: all The Great English Outdoors. Enamel teapot, £11.99, Wayfair. Vintage cake stand, £16, RE. Partridge

plate (in window), £215, The Shop Floor Project. Faux potted plant, from a selection, Bloom. Swedish blind, made in vintage linen, antiques market find. Stove, from a selection, Morso. Vintage Observer’s book, from a selection, The Old Haberdashery. Vintage

wing chair, auction find; covered in Bantam Bough

linen union, £66/m, Mark Hearld for St Jude’s. Task

floor lamp, £489, Original BTC. Whitewashed stool (just seen), £95, French Connection. On mantel, from left: bottles and

vases, from a selection, Grand Illusions. Crow

print, £85, The Shop Floor Project. Mug, bowls and

platter: antiques market finds. Vintage trophy vase, £26, RE. Wren card, from a selection, Lou Tonkin. Jadeite cake stand, £32, RE. Print, £250, Mark Hearld at St Jude’s Right: details as before.

Scarf, £30, The Great English Outdoors. Bowl, £25, French Connection.

Napkin (in bowl), £12.95, The Conran Shop. Frame, £2, Tiger. Owl card, £2.45, Mark Hearld at The Ditchling Museum shop