COLOUR GUIDE

Please note: Due to the technical limitations of computer monitors, these are not true colour representations.

A real appreciation of the colour and texture can only be achieved by seeing one of our hand-produced colour charts featuring all 15 collections, 162 colours and costing £10.

Call 020 7228 7694 to arrange for a colour chart.

Original
I wanted to be original and so I asked some of my friends what their favourite colours were and the Collection was born.

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Fresh
I wanted to create something fresh and soft

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Houghton Hall Collection
I was given some 18th Century fabric to match. Through Miv Watts, a Designer, I got to know the people at Houghton Hall and they allowed me to use historical names for the colours.

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Solace
Based on the colours of Norfolk. I sent the colours to Miv Watts, a designer, who came out with the lovely poem, read left to right, that defines the colour names.

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Pale
After the Original Collection I thought that I needed some pale softer hues

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Sacla
Combining the Italian heritage and style of Francesca and the Sacla sauces, it seemed a natural step to dream up a food inspired paint collection which would echo the warmth and depth of the Italian experience.

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Earth
I was inspired by earthy tones, as I was creating it I was imagining to be in the bush, feeling the land, thinking of the colours there

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NAMIBIAN SANDS
The colours of Namibia are strong, alive, ever changing. Sand, rocks, stony mountains, canyons, and sand dunes. I have been highly inspired by this scenery, and this is the result of that inspiration.

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Cuban Collection

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Tenth Collection

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Miv Watts: The Tin Shack Collection

'To be afraid of colour is to be afraid of life'

Paint it any colour you like, but make it reflect the environment. Let it never be beige or magnolia, because life just isn't beige.

These colours have been inspired by the beautiful Byron Bay hinterland of N.S.W., Australia. They come as a welcome relief to the recent depersonalisation of our homes. Whether a shack, a homestead or a modern townhouse, Australians live closely with their environment, care constantly for its welfare and are acutely aware that what they put in, they get out. This all makes for a confident community.

With this in mind they are not afraid to use colour wherever they can. Both inside and out, the Australian home is a vivid reflection of its natural surroundings.

This palette is a mixture of influences from the brightness of the sparkling bay to the tropical earthiness of the rain forest.

We hope you are inspired to pick up your brush and BE BRAVE!
Also available at Housebait.

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Off White
Why an off white collection? Because these tones are elegant, sophisticated, classical and never out of date.

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Mughal Spring
Aleta Bartel-Orton and Francesca Wezel have combined their passion for colour to create ‘Mughal Spring’. Each shade has been carefully created to complement a variety of designs within Aleta’s textile collections for interiors.

Aleta’s prints are born from the meticulously drawn leaves, buds and flowers of the Mughal nature studies from 17th Century India. With these 8 shades, we have tried to capture the fresh, spiritual essence of an exotic spring.

With ‘Mughal Spring’ we pay tribute to the past, but take fresh inspiration from the contemporary blues and greens that are the colours of the moment.

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Indian Summer
Following the success of their "Mughal Spring' collection, Aleta Bartel-Orton and Francesca Wezel created 'Indian Summer' to capture shades of the warm autumn months of a prolonged summer.

Once again, the collection has been designed to co-ordinate with Aleta's range of fabrics and wallpapers, which are inspired by nature and pay tribute to the decorative arts of 17th Century Mughal India.

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Monsoon Rains
Each year, the monsoon rains flood India during the months of June to September. Aleta Bartel-Orton and Francesca Wezel have created the 'Monsoon Rains' collection with reference to these waters that cleanse, bring life, and shape cultures.

'Monsoon Rains' is the third collection designed to co-ordinate with Aleta's fabrics and wall papers inspired by the Mughal decorative arts of 17th entury northern India.

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