Water Garden

Chosen as the 2020 QEST (Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust) Sanderson Design Co. Scholar decorative painter Rachel Spelling has crafted an elegant contemporary wallpaper panel for Sanderson Water Garden. Inspired by nature’s peaceful pleasures in contrast to the chaos of London in lockdown her design draws on the joys of springtime buds early butterflies and a quiet sense of space.

Using a refined and harmonious palette of gently layered pinks, blues and yellows, Rachel’s muted scheme reveals a tranquil horizon that reaches from water to sky. A painted casein distemper ground, breathable and chalky, forms an ethereal backdrop to trailing golden laburnum clusters, which caught Rachel’s eye in the Sanderson archive