Paint Some Colour....: The Recycled House -Sydenham Arts Festival

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I've worked in the design industry for well over 25 years & my approach to colour selection is practical, creative and systematic.

My personal way of choosing colour is based on an analytical engagement with the subject and the creation of a visual story, supported by a unique library of images and materials collected over the years.

The last place I look to find the colour of my dreams is on a paint chart. It's not that I never go there, I do. It's just that the manufacturers paint chart is the final tool in the decision making process. I use them only to qualify my choices.

I'm also deeply interested in the historical evolution and the manufacturing of paint; its application and range of finish, from dead matt through to ultra gloss. The way light plays on a decorated surface, is as important as the very colour itself.

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Friday 13 July 2012

The Recycled House -Sydenham Arts Festival

The Recycled House 2012

Artists' Open House - Sydenham Arts Festival 2012

If you are on the Visual Arts Trail - Sat/Sun 14-15 then make your way here, this is a great find.

I wholly recommend you take the time to visit to this living art piece, The Recycled House. It's a real home & ever changing installation piece, conceived and constructed by the creative pair of Kate Shipp and Mark Hill. Though amongst the salvaged beauty is a very real and admirable ethic : This is anti-consumerism writ large

Sydenham Arts Festival gives us a brief (one week-end only) opportunity to see this amusing and captivating space. Imagine a house decorated by Sir John Soane but sourced by Albert Steptoe. The interior is full of items saved literally from skips and scoured at boot sales. Items swapped, traded and made from salvaged materials or scrap, things most of us would overlook.

I've personally been to the house a number of times and each time I discover a new part I'd overlooked before. Though it may well have never been there in the first place, in all it gives you a heady flood of images and objects to view; be warned though, this is no trip to Ikea.

Also much of what you see is for sale. Mark is a working artist & trader, so don't be surprised to find price tags on your tea cups or cake stands. Also ask to see his other work too; it's all there on the walls, with much more hidden in the plan chests.

The house is located at.....

4 Longton Avenue SE26 *click on for a map near to the beautiful Sydenham Wells park

It's easy to get to by car, bus or train * see links

By train, head for Sydenham in SE26 on the fantastic new overground Train Service and it's about a 10 minute walk from the station.
Buses from Crystal Palace run every 10 minutes.

Contact details

shipp.hill@virgin.net