13/08/2026
On Tuesday we ventured to one of our favourite places of inspiration, Charleston, just outside of Lewes, East Sussex, for a day of exploring, pressing and making amongst this seminal modernist home.
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We enjoyed a wonderful garden tour by head gardener Harry Hoblyn, who described how the recent and incessant British heatwaves have affected the garden at Charleston, alongside his mission to plant fruit trees and shrubbery in time with Roger Fry’s original design and the epoch in which the artists lived. We admired Harry’s approach to maintaining the Bloomsbury groups legacy with naturalistic and artistic planting; working to balance the intense pressures of an ever changing climate while maintaining the vibrant, painterly ‘sweet disorder’ of the original planting scheme.
Alongside exploring the process of flower pressing and mounting techniques, we were fortunate enough to enjoy an exclusive tour of the house and studio, taking inspiration from the paintings and murals, with special appreciation for the floral motifs and botanical painted panels we spotted.
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Thank you to all that came and to Charleston for providing us with a timely dose of unrivalled inspiration!
