Sarah Campbell Designs

1 min read 2021-08-01 23:26:48

‘us in the life’

Look what just arrived – newly printed fabrics! In January this year I sent a group of just-painted designs to Free Spirit Fabrics in North

1 min read 2021-08-01 23:00:00

Look what just arrived – newly printed fabrics! In January this year I sent a group of just-painted designs to Free Spirit Fabrics in North

1 min read 2021-05-07 16:10:14

A couple of days ago I had a longing to paint stripes! Luckily I found a new concertina notebook stashed in my studio drawer – couldn’t be a

10 min read 2021-03-09 20:11:55

I certainly have some things to be celebrated, but it’s something of a challenge as to know how: I’m not drawn to zoom social gatherings. I had a

11 min read 2021-01-25 22:37:30

llvenavena Try as I might, I can’t avoid the feeling that this lockdown has a doomy air about it. Even though some of us are getting vaccinated;

7 min read 2020-11-25 22:35:24

Usually, on an early december weekend I’d be taking part in both the Selvedge winter fair in town and the Open House studio sale event run by a

14 min read 2020-10-11 20:27:54

I’ve left it rather late in the day to tell you about ‘Painted Treasures’! In my last blog I said I was on course to contribute work to the

9 min read 2020-07-17 00:24:35

A nephew, catching sight of the jars on my studio window-cill (or is it sill?) once asked me what all the paintbrushes were about. “Well, these are

10 min read 2020-06-01 15:18:04

I am sitting at my table, I am eating a late lunch, I am looking out the window: the light is clear, the sky is blue, the leaves flicker the

13 min read 2020-04-30 23:25:33

Each morning when I comb my hair I twist any stray wisps together and float them off through the open window in the belief that they will be found by

10 min read 2020-03-28 23:05:12

A little while ago I was asked to give a lecture on the principles of pattern. I called the talk ‘One dot does not a pattern make, Nor one

13 min read 2019-10-14 04:05:52

It’s lovely to welcome some new small people to the planet – several young friends have had babies this year, beautiful boys and girls, twins and

4 min read 2019-06-27 14:58:43

At the start of March I travelled to Mexico to teach again in Guadalajara. On the way I was re-reading Gulliver’s Travels. I was much affected by

1 min read 2018-11-27 14:47:00

I inhabit a very nice, but not huge, flat; I work at home. My life and my work are inextricable.My flat, as anyone who has visited will agree, is

1 min read 2018-07-27 22:32:49

In London the bus is my favoured mode of transport – although it’s slow and subject to all sorts of traffic congestion, it’s easier for a chat