Rufus: the Harvest Moon Collection for Andrew Martin

Rufus began as a hand-painted mural in my Hastings studio thanks to a close creative collaboration with Kit Kemp. The design draws on our shared love of medieval tapestries and folk painting, the same well of imagery I have returned to throughout my career, and it carries all the qualities that tradition produces when you work with it seriously: fruit-laden trees stretching upward, deer bounding across rolling hills, birds mid-flight, rabbits tucked between roots, and a distant sun face smiling down. It is a world with its own internal logic, populated by things that have been in this landscape, in some form, for centuries.

The Stone colourway works in baked ochres, umber, sage, and chalky blue: grounded, sun-warmed tones that echo antique parchment and natural pigments. Mist and Summer take the same composition into lighter and more pastoral registers. All three colourways carry the quality of the hand-painted original, which is the point. The paint to pixel to print process preserves the brushwork, the tonal range, and the sense of a thing made rather than generated, through every stage from studio to roll.

Rufus is a two-panel mural, 140cm wide with a 350cm vertical pattern repeat, sold by the pack. The companion Meadow fabric in the Harvest Moon collection is derived from the same hand-painted source, the composition reinterpreted for textile and enhanced with embroidery.

Rufus is available in three colourways through Andrew Martin and their global stockists.