Me old china
Emily Maude
Brighton-based illustrator and designer Emily Maude creates works on glass as well as on paper, featuring Staffordshire dogs and lustreware jugs set against chinoiserie wallpaper. When on furlough last year, she shifted her focus to nearby Charleston, the East Sussex farmhouse that was once home to Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. Moved by its financial plight during lockdown, she organised an auction of work by fellow artists, which raised £55,000. ‘I’ve loved Charleston since I was a child. There’s something wonderful about that idea
