Moorcroft Millside Jug Plates 5cm W 17cm H 8cm

5cm W 17cm H 8cm

In late winter and early spring

lop ears and white and black markings for which he is loved by millions of fans

Curlews sing as damselflies and butterflies provide colour over the mud and sand

Vicky's butterflies have paused for a moment and have settled gently on aptly named Butterfly Orchids whose white petals are faintly shaded at the centre in pale green

Moorcroft Millside Jug Plates 5cm W 17cm H 8cmCharles Rennie Mackintosh moved to Millside, Walberswick, in 1914, where there was a small artists' colony. Here he produced some of the finest watercolour flower studies of his career. Flowers such as tulips reoccurred in his art and continued in his later textile designs. It was these floral motifs that inspired Rachel. Her stylised tulips and lattice work have a jewel like quality, enhanced by the clever use of coloured tubelining slip H 18. 5cm