What I love most about Rebecca's designs is that they're so clearly inspired by the Scottish landscape, and yet they'd look at home anywhere. You won't find a Highland cow or a saltire on any of them. Instead she has taken the colours, shapes and textures of the land around her and turned them into classic, timeless designs. The thread of the Scottish landscape runs right through them, but they'd sit just as happily in a kitchen in London, New York or Sydney as they would in a cottage in the Highlands.
From interior design to illustration
Rebecca is a visual artist and designer based in Scotland. She came to it via a career in interior design, a BA in literature and an MA in illustration, and you can see all three in her work: an eye for how a piece will sit in a room, a love of storytelling, and a beautifully loose, expressive drawing style.
She now designs her own collection of hand-illustrated homewares, hand-built ceramics, fabrics and eco wallpapers. Her inspiration comes from time spent in the natural world. She works with watercolour mark-making and mono-printing to capture the space between the real and the imagined, and her ceramics take their cue from things she forages and notices on her walks.
Designed in Scotland, with care for every detail
Rebecca goes to real lengths to source the best materials she can, and does everything she can here in Scotland. She has told me about her search for somewhere in Scotland to make the tea towels themselves. Since the last linen mill here closed, that has been a real challenge, but she's determined to keep looking. It's exactly the kind of commitment to Scottish making that I want to support.
I stock her organic cotton Machair Clock tea towels and her printed wash bags in gold green and blue. Her tea towel also goes into my Tea Time Gift Box. They make lovely, useful gifts for anyone who loves good design, whether they've a connection to Scotland or not.