‘I thought that most people are creative, and that Chalk Paint was a power they could have - not like painting by numbers,' Annie Sloan says, explaining the inspiration behind the game-changingly versatile paint she invented more than three decades ago. Her self-appointed mission seemed impossible - a quest for a substance that could be mixed easily, would stick to almost any surface without preparation, and absorb wax so that it could be polished to a lustrous sheen. Miraculously, after many tweaks and trials, the eponymous Annie Sloan Chalk Paint
