Trevor Allen

For many years I have worked in retail as a window dresser and my art school ceramic training put me in good stead to work for London's top retailers. Window dressing is a bit like making sculpture you choose the most luxurious things and you arrange them to look at their most magical.

“In recent years I have felt the need to go back to my first love, which I found early during my school days and then through to art school. Some years ago, my husband and I moved from London to Hertfordshire to make our new home. We came upon The Old George, a former pub and Tudor coaching inn. It has been our passion to lovely restore and add more vigour back into this lovely old house. The nature in my garden inspires my work. Swifts seem to be a real inspiration at present, nesting in the roof of my house. Other inspiration sources are the fish in my pond and the hares I see while walking my dogs. With all this inspiration I like to make things that are useful and that can be used in the home. This works well and in tandem with my love for cooking and entertaining, but the biggest Joy is to make something lovely then share it with Friends and new acquaintances.”