Celia Birtwell

Celia’s website is the right spot to visit on an October Sunday morning. When you enter her online domain soft twittering of birds make you feel comfortable and do encourage you to watch her fashion gallery and read about her life as the wife of Ossie Clark and the muse of David Hockney.

From an article in old Elle Decoration edition (August, 2007) I could make up, that Celia’s inspirations are from Matisse’s artworks and the Bloomsbury Group Gardens. The letter ones belonged to the house of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. This artistic couple moved in 1916 from London to Sussex and converted their house , Charleston, into an artistic home where Bell and Grant and their many gifted friends could live, love and create. Charleston was the meeting place of what later became the Bloomsbury group. Among this group of artists, intellectuals and writers are familiar names like Virginia Woolf, Maynard Keynes, Roger Fry and A.M. Forster.

Celia is an multi-disciplinary designer that is successful in fashion as well as interior decoration. On her website and in her Notting Hill shop her 4 collections in fabrics are to admire.

For this blog post I’ve picked my favourites and presented them amidst some pic’s of the Bloomsbury gardens.

Have a lovely Sunday!