Each item from The Greenwich Collection is designed and woven with care. My years of experience mean that the process and materials used are highly considered, with every element important to the production of the finished item. The textiles are designed and made to last and to be passed down through generations.

The collection started with exploring woven structure, with inspiration taken from the patterns in the sand during my travels to coastal areas. The weave was then thoroughly developed on a hand loom, testing scale and proportion, as well as exploring colour combinations, yarn texture and qualities. Wool was selected with sustainability in mind and I chose the softest Donegal merino yarn for its rich speckled colour and gorgeous texture.

The designs pay homage to the paintings of Sonia Delaunay, an artist famed for her use of colour and abstract geometric compositions. The vitality of the colour combinations used by Delaunay inspired the collection, with multiple visits to her seminal exhibition at Tate Modern ensuring that I celebrated how colour can evoke a powerful emotional response, and bring pleasure into your home.

I have used multiple colours to create an overall blended tone with a subtle shaded quality, taking inspiration from how paints are mixed together and how the Pointillist painters worked. This highly complex weave has challenged the numbers of colours and yarns used, creating a more sophisticated and sumptuous finish.

I chose to work with Bristol Weaving Mill, whose skills and expertise are evident in the beauty and quality of the finished products. It is vital to support the UK textile industry, so as well as working with Bristol Weaving Mill, a family business in Sussex makes the cushion pads, a Yorkshire mill creates the fabric for the back and a local dressmaker constructs the finished cushions.