True Colours
“Most crafts are about the coming together of art with science, and rationality with mystery, and there’s a certain point where it’s nice to let go and see what happens.” So says botanical dyer Flora Arbuthnott, who lives and works in a quiet, rural valley near Totnes in Devon. It took Flora some time to settle into this dualism, but now she has come to see how it permeates almost everything in her life.
Art and craft are in Flora’s blood. Her mother, Vanessa, is the popular textile designer whose eponymous line of fabrics reflects the joys of rural life. Her father is an architect and stone carver, and her sister is a
