Cotswolds Kitchen Tiles
Caroline Egleston Landscape Tile Frieze LH
A dynamic tile frieze with playful shapes to compliment the bold love of colour for a kitchen in a beautifully designed barn conversion.
I put something together on the basis of photos & a video showing the space. The clients visited my workshop to look at initial ideas. We tweaked some areas to balance. It was important to work with the surroundings - large windows looked over extensive countryside. Also to bring visual interest into the large expanse of high white ceiling. I was able to deliver the tiles and see for myself the wonderful views, the lovely courtyard planting outside and the excitingly creative interior design. Every intricate detail was carefully considered and selected.
“Working with you has been an amazing experience and the results bring us so much joy.”
Tessellation
Gesture tessellation: a dynamic tile scape. Rhythmic shapes in a rhythmic dance pattern.
I’m interested in creating movement across the wall surface. The tile shapes here are made individually and then mounted onto painted rectangles of painted plywood and then fixed to the wall.
Apartment in Rome
A lovely commission for an apartment in Rome, recently refurbished by its new owners. We started with colour possibilities so the whole scheme flows and then finessed the design to enhance the space.
The tile frieze was handmade and hand painted, measuring 120 x 35 cm.
Tudor Gothic Cottage
Caroline Egleston - Tudor Gothic Cottage kitchen tiles
The commissioning process starts with a sketch of ideas, leading to a mock up of the tiles on my workshop floor and re-arranging…right to the last moment. I like to produce some sort of Photoshop mock-up so the client can see the balance of the tiles in the space. Finally, each tile is numbered and carefully packed, along with a laminated sheet with full details for the tiler.
“Thank you so so much, Caroline. Colours and design both exceeding imagination and expectation....”
Hampshire Cottage, Kitchen Tiles
Caroline Egleston ceramic art hampshire cottage kitchen tiles
An opportunity to lift a darkish area in a lovely old Hampshire cottage. I felt it was a chance to bring in some bold, warmer colours.
“The tiles are AMAZING. I spent most of the afternoon sitting and staring at them! They are truly beautiful.”
Malvern House, Kitchen Tiles
Caroline Egleston - kitchen tiles project malverns interior
This was a lockdown project, a time when the family were at home together and the kitchen is the hub … all the family had a say in choosing the tiles.
“They are beautiful, every time I come down they surprise me and they have animated, transformed the kitchen at a time when we are almost always in it!
Soho House Tables
Caroline Egleston - Project - Coffee Table for Soho House
The long plain tiles have a cobalt and nickel glaze on textured clay. There are three colourways of central ‘circle-in-square’ tiles.
Here are the tables before and after grouting.
Somerset Potting Shed
Caroline Egleston - Converted Potting Shed in Somerset - Fireplace Tiles
Converted from an old potting shed, the open-plan living space makes such a light and spacious home.
The two tiled areas are at opposite ends of the living space, so needed to relate but be distinct in feel. I loved working with this client who enjoys and collects ceramics, enthralled by glazes and the variation which makes for something individual.
Cabin in the Woods
Four metre tile frieze in a Cornish cabin.
Four metre tile frieze spanning this cosy Cornish cabin
