Creative COLOURS

Colour is the painter’s playground. The Bloomsbury artists mixed blues, greens, turquoise and terracotta, deep chocolate, rich yellows and dusky pinks, painting every available surface. Ivon Hitchens’s abstract English landscapes provide another palette of inspiration, where muted greys, ochres, sepia and moss green are splashed with accents of purple, cobalt, teal and emerald. And in the paintings of Pierre Bonnard, greens and golds are enriched by blues and oranges.

OPPOSITE Strong yellow walls and textiles combine with our Charlbury chair with DFS in a floral print. Hand-painted firescreen by Madeleine Bradbury at Bloomsbury Interiors. Lampshade by Bloomsbury Revisited. Hartland carpet, Country Living Collection at Carpetright 1 Humpty Dumpty Claypaint, £47/2.5L, Earthborn

2 Floral Exotica 11 tile by Wayne Pate, from £21.60 per tile, Balineum

3 Blue Bolero emulsion, from a selection, Valspar

4 Isabella emulsion, £51/2.5L, Edward Bulmer 5 Komorebi rug, from £1,620, A Rum Fellow

6 Barley twist candlestick, £65, Montes & Clark

7 St Giles Blue estate emulsion, £49.50/2.5L, Farrow & Ball 8 Breakfast Room Green estate emulsion, £49.50/2.5L, Farrow & Ball 9 Linen napkin, £65/four, Matilda Goad 10 A table is decorated with a naive border and circles using Annie Sloan paint

11 Vivid orange walls and hand-painted boards resembling chequerboard tiles bring energy to this hallway

12 A pigeonhole set of drawers painted in a soft pink looks characterful