RHS licensing partner Moorcroft has produced a brand new range for 2019, the RHS Beatrix Stanley Collection. It features art pottery, with designs based on the floral watercolour studies of the legendary gardener and painter Lady Beatrix Stanley, along with the iris that celebrates her name.
“Moorcroft is utterly delighted to have been able to work with the RHS again and to have access once more to its unrivalled botanical library for this captivating art collection, and renowned ceramic designer,” comments Moorcroft’s Catherine Gage, director of legal & marketing. “Nicola Slaney has produced a vibrant but delicate homage to the captivating works of Lady Stanley.”
The range includes: Ooty, inspired by Geranium wallichianum, also known as cranesbill; Solanum, a popular medicinal herb; Peacock Flower, a species of flowering plant in the pea family; Lady Beatrix Stanley, a design based on the rich blue Lady Beatrix Stanley iris.
Moorcroft’s designer Nicola Slaney also chose two popular Moorcroft shapes on which to include the iris, an art nouveau loving cup and a vase, with surface decoration creating soft, pastel-coloured petals and lemony wisps of foliage. Additionally Sibbertoft is a plaque featuring the Lady Beatrix Stanley iris, inspired by the period in which Lady Stanley lived, and the home – Sibbertoft Manor – that she loved.
As a horticultural authority and a creator of marvellous watercolours of the flowers and plants she loved so much, Lady Beatrix Stanley’s life and work are well worth celebrating,” enthuses Cathy Snow, RHS licensing manager.“This beautiful new art potterycollection from a valued RHS partner is a fitting tribute to this wonderful woman.”
Top: Moorcroft’s new RHS Lady Beatrix Stanley collection.
