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Francesca’s Paints Colour Story March 2021
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…
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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…
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Dillwyn Smith ‘Light Cages’
October 2019
24th October to 22nd November 2019 The Exhibition is taking place at 11 York Road SE1, 12th Floor, at Vo Curations, previous office of David Chipperfield Architects. Some of Dillwyn’s work is framed with our eco emulsion in the Energetic Grey, Sensitezed Green and Angelico Pink from the Poison into Medicine Collection inspired by the Nativity by Piero della Francesca that we collaborated together in May this year. The wall at the entrance is also painted in the Angelico Pink. Dillwyn’s work is colourful, tasteful and gentle. The colours he chooses are harmonious , the material is translucent and the…
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Colours of My Mind
November 2019
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,…
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Poison into Medicine Collection
May 2019
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…
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