My Favourites

Artist - Fabian Perez, Tanya Ling, El Lissitzky, Henrique Oliveira

Graphic Designer - Milton Glaser

Fashion Designer - Madeleine Vionnet

Photographer - Roger Ballen (spoookily brilliant work- mentally unsettled does not equal freak)

Garden Designer - Beth Chatto

Landscape Architect - Kathryn Gustafson

Inventor - Alison Davies ---

Architect - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Engineer - Nikola Tesla

Sweet - liquorice/ vimpto lollie (I prefer chocolate, I enjoy lollipops)

Musician/ band - Cesaria Evora for salsa

Scientist - Dorothy Hodgkin

Film Director - Roman Polanski

Author - John Roughley

Pasta shape - Tagliatelle/ farfalle  

Horticulturist - Russel Page

Smell - mother and honeysuckle 

Sound - silence, warm wind and my beautiful family 

Taste - truffle cream of mushroom and love!

The satisfaction of working everyday towards being my best self and being kind 

Plant/ flower - lily and anything yellow

Material - silk

Texture - flat and cracked wall beneath feet, water, the hands of someone I adore

Colour - yellow (sunny, warm)

Typeface/ font - hand written

Industrial/ Product designer - Marcel Wanders

Garden/ park - Garden- my mother’s heart. Park - any with a swing and seesaw (Chapletown, Edgworth). 

Art Gallery - any with tall ceilings and grandpas shed

Place on Earth - wherever I feel calm, with myself, with warmth and with my loved ones 

Fruit - warm oddly shaped cherries

Time of day - peak of summer, 8pm

Day of year - days spent smiling, days with mum, days with loved ones and the day after the winter solstice 

Shop - shops with paint, tassels and ribbons inside

Piece of music - Crimson and Clover, Tommy James and The Shondells

Piece of poetry or lyrics - In My Life The Beatles, Milkshakes and Romance by Arthur Rimbaud

Book - Catcher in the Rye

Flavour of crisps - prawn cocktail

Coniferous tree - Cedars all the way

Design style / period - Pre Raphaelite 

Commercial brand - none, I will take a walk and think on it

Entrepreneur - those with big hearts and present minds


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