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Flights of FANCY

When people look at my work, I want them to feel as if it’s the first day of summer,’ says Diane Hill as she paints a pair of delicate cobalt-blue wings onto a butterfly for a new wallpaper design. ‘My aim is to conjure up that feeling of sitting in a blossoming garden, full of blooms and joyful, uplifting colours.’

Even on a dull day, sitting with Diane in her loft studio at her home in

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