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A video for the Evening Standard with Jermaine Gallacher and Rags Art - June 2022
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2022

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Colour of the month - Homes & Gardens - October 2021
Bar Crispin and Jermain Gallacher July 2021

Bar Crispin and Jermain Gallacher

July 2021

Bar Crispin, www.barcrispin.com, is an all-day natural wine bar and restaurant on Kingly Street, Soho. It is a place for any occasion. It focuses on small scale producers, sustainability is at the core of Bar Crispin's ethos.

The space is designed in collaboration with the super talented and eclectic Jermaine Gallacher, www.jermainegallacher.com , a modernist maverick and part of the historically renowned Bloomsbury Group,

The ground floor is painted in Parto, from the Poison into Medicine Collection, and the purple triangles, typically a Jermaine's design, are in Piero Purple from the same collection.
The Green Room is a 12 person private dining room. Jermaine asked us to make the wonderful Emerald Green, in a water based gloss, especially for this project, it is reminiscent of old Soho.
The ceiling, walls and floor are all painted in this bespoke colour and it is like being inside an emerald box
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Whatever Jermaine designs, it is like a piece of art and is completely unique

Sconce and paper light by Viola Lanari www.violanari.com
Photos by Oskar Proctor www.oskarproctor.com

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ADAM BRAY COLLABORATION
July 2021

ADAM BRAY COLLABORATION July 2021

Adam Bray, www.adambray.info, with Hamilton Weston Wallpapers, www.hamiltonweston.com, designed a 'Brown Paper Stripe,' an elegant utilitarian broad stripe originally hand painted on the manilla wrapping paper we keep on the roll in our office.

Adam's innovative style brings a modern twist to the classic stripe in this exciting new collection of wallpapers.

Adam asked us to match the colours of the stripes of the wallpaper, as coordinating paint for woodwork, so you can touch in your architraves and skirting to match your walls.

Available in gloss in the 6 colours of the wallpaper.

To order please call us on 020 72287694 or email us

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Video - Creating and making colours July 2021
Francesca's Paints
Colour Story March 2021

INTRODUCTION

From her studio in Battersea, London, Francesca Wezel creates hand mixed, velvety paint, with immense depth and tone that changes with the light of day. To celebrate 25 years of Francesca’s Paints, she has selected nine colours, which capture the essence of the paint created across 25 collections and 236 shades.

‘Each collection tells a story, inspired by art, history, travel and nature’ says Francesca, whose expert eye for colour is underscored by an artisanal approach to paint, using the finest – and often oldest – pigments to achieve a unique, luxurious finish.

THE COLOUR STORY

Ice House Blue is an elegant grey-green, colour matched using a mix of umbers and ochres, to 16th century textiles from the archive of Houghton Hall in Norfolk, in collaboration with interior designer Miv Watts.

Silent is a meditative deep blue, featuring hints of black and purple, from the Sadhana collection, a palette of reflective and peaceful hues inspired by Francesca’s love of yoga.

Piero della Francesca’s Nativity inspired the exact shade of Angelico Pink, a subtle, putty shade from the Poison into Medicine collection, created with the artist Dillwyn Smith. Here it is combined with a foggy grey, Hangover Square, from the studio’s latest palette, Colours of My Mind. This collection captures the mood evoked by books that inspired Francesca and her collaborator, author Raffaella Barker.

Francesca’s travels influenced the deep terracotta Monkey Tail from the Himalayas Collection, and Dome, reminiscent of marble found in a Florence Cathedral, is from the Off-White Collection II.

Inspired by Marcel Proust’s A la Recherche du Temps Perdu, the playful pink Madeleines, also from the Colours of My Mind Collection, embodies Francesca’s vivacious approach to colour. Here it is counterbalanced by White Truffle, from the Off-White Collection I. Made entirely from raw umber, this soft white complements virtually any shade.

Named after J.D. Salinger’s short story, Love & Squalor, from the recent Colours of My Mind collection, is a balanced brown, created from three pigments in equal measure for a soft, suave tone.

ABOUT FRANCESCA’S PAINTS

In Francesca’s studio, each tin of paint is mixed by hand with the greatest care. One of the first sustainable paint brands in the UK, Francesca’s lime wash and eco emulsion finishes are plastic and solvent free and delivered in recyclable pots.

All Francesca’s bases are sourced from Italy and coloured with a mix of just 12 mineral, organic and synthetic pigments.

Love & Squalor

Monkey Tail and Dome

Madeleines and White Truffle

Ice House Blue

Angelico Pink and Hangover Square

Silent

Angelico Pink and Hangover Square

Ice House Blue

Madeleines

Silent

Stylist: Alex Krystal - alexkristal.com. Photographer: Beth Evans - bethevans.com and Flowers: Frida Kim - fridakim.com

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Samsung Project
October 2020

Samsung Project

October 2020

I was asked by colour expert Karen Haller, www.karenhaller.co.uk, to colour match three innovative TVs by Samsung and create three complimenting colours that would showcase the innovative aesthetics of the Tvs. Thus, the limited edition of LivingColour paint selection was born. The 6 colours are stunning, three, perfectly match the TV frames and three, compliment them. These colours are exclusive to Samsung UK.

Three Influencers, Kate Watsno-Smyth @mad_about_the_house, Yinka Ilori @Yinka_Ilori and Whinnie Williams @whinniewilliams were then asked to design a set using the paint and TVs and these are the results.

All paints were mixed and made especially for this project by me, Francesca Wezel

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Thank you
NHS

Thank you NHS

We have launched the timely ‘NHS BLUE’, a bespoke colour available across all our products, including lime wash, eco emulsion and smart emulsion. 20% of sales (of this colour) will be donated to the NHS in recognition of their outstanding efforts during the Coronavirus crisis.

May 2020

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Latest Collection
Colours of My Mind

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Colours of My Mind - Latest Collection A collaboration between Raffaella Barker and Francesca Wezel.

Raffaella explains.....
Over the years I have painted many rooms with Francesca’s colours, sending wild pleas to her such as: ‘Could I have something the colour of a bra strap?’ or ‘Here’s a squashed bunch of flowers from my garden, can we work out a match for the petals and leaves before it fades? , or ‘A room of cheerful chaos please, a place where my teenage sons can endlessly play Playstation'.

Her colours, with their ability to change in the light, to undulate through space, always seem to have a narrative, and so it felt like a story waiting to be told when we decided to work together. Francesca and I began thinking about what makes a book, and what we found, when talking about the images that words convey, is that the colour of thought is vivid.

The colour of books also turns out to be alive and realisable, and this palette captures a mood that the magical pleasure of reading can bring and turns it into colour.
Raffaella Barker is a writer and novelist whose work is imbued with the spirit of her home on the North Norfolk coast.

November 2019

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Collection
Poison into Medicine

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Poison into Medicine Collection - A collaboration between Dillwyn Smyth, artist and Francesca Wezel, #thecolourwoman

The collection is called Poison into Medicine, a Buddhist term meaning that we can take suffering, hardships or trauma happening in our life and use it as stimulus to create something positive, thus changing Poison into Medicine.

Francesca and artist Dillwyn Smith visited The National Gallery in Trafalgar Square together in 2018 where he introduced Francesca to some of his favourite early renaissance paintings and in particular the paintings of Piero della Francesca.

The colours in this new collection take inspiration from his painting The Nativity, painted in 1470-5 in oil on poplar wood. Dillwyn has been looking at this painting for more than 40 years and has developed a deep relationship with it.

We build relationships with particular paintings across a lifetime, sometimes they challenge us and at other times give us sustenance and courage, The Nativity is one of these for Dillwyn. Though developing this new range of colours inspired by this work, we wish to share the sense of the calm illumination, serenity and beauty that we find in Piero’s masterpiece, we believe that these colours are well balanced and reflect the humanity and strength of The Nativity.

Dillwyn and Francesca developed a respect and friendship whilst working on a project in 2014 where D found F because he wanted to use bespoke colours to create a special atmosphere at Morito Hackney Road for restaurateurs Sam & Sam Clark. They worked together again in 2018 for Dillwyn’s exhibition 'Teacher’s Pet' at Patrick Heide Gallery, London when he wanted to frame his work with colours inspired by some of his favourite early renaissance paintings, these colours would be painted directly onto the wall. Working closely together with Francesca they made the colours which were a great success. They agreed to collaborate together in the future and 'Poison into Medicine’ is the result. His love of art and colour has its roots in the art room at school where he found solace and sanctuary from a teacher who had groomed and abused him whilst at school. Through his life as an artist Dillwyn believes he is turning ‘Poison into Medicine’. Dillwyn and Francesca believe that colour touches us deeply, can affect, stimulate and always be alive within us.

We hope you will enjoy it.

Dillwyn Smith/Francesca Wezel

May 2019

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