Interiors Journalist, Jessica Salter will host a lively and inspiring conversation about how to achieve the balance of colour, shape and form to create joyful design, with artist and celebrated colourist, Jemma Powell, interior designer Lucy Barlow, founder of architectural interior design studio, Barlow and Barlow, known for her fearless and luxurious sense of pattern, print and colour and Ella Ringner, founder of the ready-to-wear and homeware brand Yolke, whose designs never fail to bring decorative beauty to wardrobe favorites.
Together, the panel will share their knowledge and tips on how to be brave and create unexpected pattern and colour combinations, to bring joy to interior spaces and wardrobe staples.
10am guests arrive for coffee and cookies
10.30am start
11.30am conversation end, audience Q&A
12 noon – End
Jemma Powell
Jemma Powell is a British artist based in Oxfordshire and is known for her painterly, observational landscapes drawn from a close contemplation of nature and her travels.
Often painting ‘en plein air’, Powell’s work is cross-pollinated with the sensory essence of the day whether that be reflected in lashings of torrid intense heat, wind rushing through lush greenery or a moistness in the air. Once the first colour is laid on a canvas, the first shape is marked out in Powell’s definitive, energetically charged brushstrokes with subsequent strokes following in conversation with one another.
Lucy Barlow
Lucy Barlow set up the Notting Hill practice in 2013 with her brother Max, the studio Lightning designer.
Lucy studied fashion before attending the Inchbald School of Design. On graduating, she worked for a number of years with the decorator Mark Gillette in the north of England creating interiors for a series of big country house estates.
Her debut interiors project was a considerable undertaking: the restoration of a quartet of luxury London apartments inside Gatti House, a majestic grade II listed building on the Strand. These decadently dressed residences – which broke records for property prices when offered for sale in 2015 – became a showcase for her rich interior style, which is marked by its riotous sense of fun, colour and pattern. This project was the springboard for founding her own design practice in September 2013.
She says: “It’s so important to create a space that makes your life better. Colour, pattern, warmth, beautiful lighting – these are the tools to make you feel happy in a home.”
Ella Ringner
A Cotswolds based textile designer and founder of the ready-to-wear and homeware brand Yolke. Having studied Textile design at London’s Central Saint Martins, Ella went on to launch Yolke in 2014. Synonymous with classic styles with a playful twist, Yolke’s collections have expanded across sleepwear, homeware, wallpapers and footwear. Known for its floral prints, Ella designs in line with the floral seasons incorporating natures offerings into the prints and colours. A strong believer in the power of print, the self confessed pattern and motif obsessive, Ella combines her love of colour and pattern to collaborations with artists and brands whilst preserving Yolke’s signature relaxed style.
Jessica Salter
Jessica Salter is a lifestyle and interiors journalist and editor whose work regularly appears in the Telegraph and the Times, along with a range of national, glossy magazines.
Her work covers lifestyle, health and wellbeing, celebrity profiles, business, interiors and craft.
Jessica was formerly commissioning editor at the Telegraph Magazine, features director at Stylist and deputy editor of Women’s Health. She was awarded the Scott Trust Bursary in 2005.
In addition to her journalistic work, Jessica is a content editor and consultant and is a ghostwriter for a range of publishers.