Inspired by sightings of flocks of parakeets over her south London home and allotment; Egyptian wallpaintings, more than a thousand years old, depicting cats, birds and insects; 1950s textile and wallpaper designs of hollyhocks and daschunds...

This Smashing Chintz collection continues the theme of exotic birds but with the addition of some more ordinary garden birds and the odd cat and snail....

showing playful inter-relationships between animals.