Appointment only · Bakewell
Two artists, one chair at a time, above Rutland Square. No flash wall and no walk-ins — a consultation first, then a drawing made for you and nobody else.
Who draws what
Everything that leaves this studio is drawn by Nell or Joss. Look at both and see whose line you would want to live with for the next forty years. Still unsure? Say so at the consultation — we will tell you honestly which of us suits the piece.
Fine-line botanical
Nell works from pressed stems and seed heads picked on the dale paths, and draws them at the weight they actually grow — single needle, nothing heavier than the plant deserves. Hellebores, umbels, rowan, anything that holds its shape when it dries.
Blackwork
Joss builds in solid black and the gaps between it — bands, carved pattern, shapes drawn to the way your arm actually moves rather than to a flat page. Bold up close, calm from across a room.
First message to healed
Four steps, in this order, every time. Nothing here happens on the day you walk in.
Thirty minutes, free. Placement, size, what you can spend, and whether the idea works on that part of the body at all. Bring references, or bring nothing.
£50 holds the date in the book. It comes off the price of the session rather than being charged on top.
Drawn in the fortnight before you come in. You see it before the needle does, and you can ask for changes — that is what the fortnight is for.
Tea first, stencil second. Breaks whenever you want them, and we stop early if your body says so. Aftercare explained before you leave.
The reference drawer
No flash wall. A drawer of pressed studies instead, most of them picked within a few miles of the shop — which is where a botanical piece usually starts.
Verge above Monyash, late May
Helleborus × hybridus
Dried from Lathkill Dale, September
Anthriscus sylvestris
Studio windowsill, February
Helleborus niger
Upstairs
One chair, one artist, one appointment. If you need to stop, we stop — and the kettle is on either way.
No surprises
Prices in pounds, quoted at the consultation and held for ninety days. Small pieces are charged by the piece, longer work by the hour or by the day.
£50 books the date and the drawing time that goes with it. Give us 72 hours' notice and we will move you once, keeping the deposit against the new date. Later than that, or a second move, and the deposit stays with us — by then the drawing is already done.