Painting
Recent paintings
Watercolour, pastel and gouache works from Juju's studio.
London / Kingston / wherever the worktable is
JuJu Vail
A style blog for grown-up girls who make their own clothes. Sewing, knitting, painting and the glorious usefulness of colour.
Studio journalEst. 2013
Colour is a practical skillThe colour issue
Good colour starts with play.
Photographs, scraps, paint and a fistful of yarn can all become a working palette. The trick is learning which relationships survive once they become stitches.
Build a Fair Isle paletteAlso on the table: bias-bound seams, textile sample books, watercolour studies and a wardrobe that works harder.
A room of one's own
The studio at the bottom of the garden
After a burst water main, a long renovation and too much time working in corners, a small garden building became the place where paintings, samples and ideas could stay put.
Read the studio storyColour, cloth, repeat
Three strands of one practice: look carefully, test generously, and keep the things that teach you something.
