ELIZABETH OCKFORD
The Garden is a collection of hand-drawn wallpaper designs which explore blooming flowers – from cheerful pansies to exotic orchids – as well as the array of insects typically found in the garden. A love for colour is evident throughout this collection, experimenting with an array of hues to achieve different results.
The designs from this collection are named after women who have inspired Elizabeth. All the women whose names were chosen have led lives where they have worked against the tide of opinion and social mores or against a backdrop of war or poverty. From the iconic status of Cleopatra to the prolific Victorian biologist and botanical artist Marianne North, this collection is inspired by the history of female empowerment.
BERYL Abundant English roses and other local country garden flowers are seen through a contemporary distortion that mimics pleated silk – all falling on a smooth metallic non-woven ground.
Repeat Size: 76.1cm Pattern Match: Straight Roll Dimensions: 70cm x 8.4m (5.88m2)
Black (W-03011)
Oyster (W-03012)
BERYL behind the name
Beryl is named after Beryl Cook OBE – the talented, albeit critically underrated, British artist who celebrated the female form in everyday life in her often comical paintings. She had a quirky eye for capturing humorous moments in everyday life, and was a firm favourite of two of Elizabeth’s favourite comedians - Dawn French and Victoria Wood.
Indigo (W-03013)
MARIANNE Botanical illustrations of a variety of flowers and fruits sit amongst skeletons or ghosts of other plants. Drawn in a
Repeat Size: 66.9cm
considered way, they are printed as if slightly polarised
Pattern Match: Offset
which gives a classic design a modern twist.
Roll Dimensions: 52cm x 10.05m (5.23m2)
Botany (W-03021)
Noir (W-03022)
Lavender (W-03023)
Sky Blue (W-03024)
MARIANNE behind the name
Marianne North was a great botanist. She travelled around the world in the 1870s and 1880s, making detailed botanical illustrations of the plants she discovered in exotic locations. Kew Gardens opened a gallery there for her work in 1880, and it remains open to this day.
CLEO Cleo features tiny bugs, beetles, dragonflies and butterflies and was inspired by the precision of entomological studies of insects in pen and ink. Opting for a simple two-tone effect – setting delicate linear rows of insects against a contrasting hue.
Repeat Size: 52cm Pattern Match: Offset Roll Dimensions: 52cm x 10.05m (5.23m2)
Teal (W-03031)
Noir (W-03032)
Sky Blue (W-03033)
Spring Green (W-03034)
Marin Blue (W-03035)
Indigo (W-03036)
Fuchsia (W-03037)
Ochre (W-03038)
CLEO behind the name
Cleo is named after none other than the iconic powerful Egyptian queen Cleopatra - she of the bewitching beauty, frightening power and sad, sad love story and death. Liz Taylor comes to mind inevitably.
JULIA Julia shows English garden birds, hand painted in watercolour
Repeat Size: 64cm
and ink. They appear collaged onto a ground of leaves and
Pattern Match: Offset
shadows with a roughly textured linen running through them.
Roll Dimensions: 52cm x 10.05m (5.23m2)
Marin Blue (W-03041)
Teal (W-03042)
Spring Green (W-03043)
Grey (W-03044)
JULIA behind the name
Julia Margaret Cameron was a pioneering photographer and was considered one of the most influential portraitists of the 19th Century in Britain. She took softly focussed portraits, often posing sitters together to recreate mythological stories. The softness of focus and composition in her photos always hints at a story behind the image.
GERTRUDE Gertrude is a photographic image of multiple Pansy heads, overlaid with textures and colour. Inspired by the vibrancy of their colours in the spring and the way that each one seems to
Repeat Size: 52cm
be unique in character. The design is printed on a pearlescent
Pattern Match: Offset
ground that enhances the glamour of the colourings offered.
Roll Dimensions: 52cm x 10.05m (5.23m2)
Cream (W-03051)
Indigo (W-03052)
Electric Pink (W-03053)
Electric Blue (W-03054)
GERTRUDE behind the name
Gertrude Jekyll was a respected garden designer in the late 19th century, designing over 400 gardens. She kept notebooks and watercolour sketches, amongst which are even some floral wallpaper designs. She is regarded as a huge influence in Garden Design even today and has a particularly beautiful rose named after her.
SADIE Named after Elizabeth’s mother, Sadie, this design features watercolour paintings of orchids inspired by Sadie’s talent for rescuing unloved orchids and enabling them to grow and flower again.
Repeat Size: 160cm Pattern Match: Offset Roll Dimensions: 70cm x 8.4m (5.88m2)
Neutral (W-03061)
Sky Blue (W-03062)
SADIE behind the name
The design is named after my mother, who was an avid gardener, but who also had a talent for rescuing unloved orchids and enabling them to grow and flower again. She came from a poor background and never stopped trying to improve herself through her life which I suppose has endowed me with my strong work ethic.
Indigo (W-03063)
ELEANOR A softly flowing stripe of English garden flowers - painted by Elizabeth in her own garden towards the end of the Spring. It shows the broad washes of water and colour, and also includes fine tracery lines in the background.
Repeat Size: 150cm Pattern Match: Offset Roll Dimensions: 70cm x 8.4m (5.88m2)
Emerald (W-03071)
Botany (W-03072)
ELEANOR behind the name
Eleanor is named after Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of the US President from 1933-1945, not only the longest serving First Lady, but afterwards, she represented the US in the United Nations for a further 7 years. An incredibly driven woman, she also championed civil rights in the US, and even publicly disagreed with her husband’s policies on occasion.
Autumn (W-03073)
LADY PENROSE This design began as a series of ornate swooping butterflies in jewel colours. We opted to have them flitting over a tonal ground, with the classic floral and acanthus leaf motif of a softly faded damask.
Repeat Size: 43cm Pattern Match: Straight Roll Dimensions: 70cm x 8.4m (5.88m2)
Sky Blue (W-03081)
Pink (W-03082)
Taupe (W-03083)
Dark Blue (W-03084)
Ochre (W-03085)
LADY PENROSE behind the name
Lady Penrose (otherwise known as Lee Miller) was a photographer during and after WW2. She was fearless in her war reportage, going to the concentration camps to document what happened there, and also in her photography of rural poverty before and after the war, but was also a beautiful muse of the Surrealist movement.
KAMALA In the Kamala design these butterflies are loosely and brightly painted in water colour, by Elizabeth Ockford, as they softly float up the wall offering a breath of fresh air to the interior.
Repeat Size: 64cm Pattern Match: Offset Roll Dimensions: 52cm x 10.05m (5.23m2)
Rainbow (W-03091)
Blush (W-03092)
Sky Blue (W-03093)
Grey (W-03094)
KAMALA behind the name
Just as we were completing this design for The Garden, the inauguration of President Biden was taking place. It feels totally appropriate to name this colourful and hopeful design after Kamala Harris, the first female Vice President and the first Ethnic Minority Vice President of the United States. Butterflies traditionally symbolise transformation, change, hope and life – what better image to give the name Kamala!
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www.elizabethockford.com/the-islands-wallpaper
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A dreamy shift from dark to light, shade to daylight created in your interior by Horizon. Six beautiful colour combinations from strong Carbon and stylish Indigo, through to the ethereal Sky and sunshine Yellow.
www.elizabethockford.com/horizon
ELIZABETH OCKFORD
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