Adam Bray – Fontwell – Olive Green – Linen

A mid-century mood of experimentalism is behind the design for the ‘Fontwell’ print, a recreation of an artwork in Adam Bray’s archive dating from the 1950s. Small in scale, the pattern with its blotches of colour and busy cross-hatching seems to interpret in graphic style the weave of a tweed fabric. It is named for Denmans Garden in Fontwell, West Sussex, where that experimental mood drove a break with traditional norms in favour of a more fluid, naturalistic approach to planting from the 1950s onwards.