Discover more about the creatives featured inside FAIRE : Issue 7
Rachel Baker
A health crisis marked a distinct turning point in the life of British creative entrepreneur Rachel Baker. Forced to slow down, she embarked on a mission to heal her ailing body holistically and reclaim her health and wellbeing. Rachel has since founded 3 Sources, an online community where she creates and shares invaluable resources on how to harness the teachings of herbalism to heal and support the body to optimal health. Rachel and her husband live and work from their beautiful thirteenth-century village house in the Luberon, France.
Photography by Ruth Ribeaucourt
For more information, follow Rachel Baker on Instagram and on her website
Jamie Beck
Sallie Lewis first met the Texas-born photographer, Jamie Beck in the autumn of 2019 in Gascony, France. To Sallie’s delight, they were both invited to a French Thanksgiving celebration and dinner at the eighteenth-century farmhouse home of Kate Hill, an American author and professional cook. In the years leading up to that occasion, Sallie had followed Jamie through Instagram and her blog and even wrote a feature story on her move to and subsequent life in Provence for VIE Magazine. By the time Sallie and Jamie actually met in person, Sallie knew she’d found a rare and kindred spirit. As a fellow Texan, Jamie’s warmth, talent, creativity and curiosity empowered Sallie to walk more confidently on her own artistic path. Jamie has a poet’s soul and sensitivity to the world that, luckily for us, she shares through the lens of her camera and through the pages of her newly published book, An American in Provence. Though their lives are separated by an ocean, the glimmer of past memories and the gifts of modern technology keep them connected. Sallie sat down with Jamie earlier this year to discuss all that Jamie has been up to in the three years since they met at Kate’s country home. Read on for their conversation, where they talk about taking chances, cultivating community, making art and finding the courage to write your own story.
Photography by Jamie Beck
For more information, follow Jamie Beck on Instagram and on her website
Liam Buckley and Ruth Faulkner
British artists Ruth Faulkner and Liam Buckley are partners in life and constant creative collaborators. They share a lively home and studio space in Tottenham, London, surrounded by their colourful, exuberant art.
Photography by Natalie Martinez
For more information, follow Ruth Faulkner on Instagram and Liam Buckley on Instagram
Lynda Gardner
Lynda Gardner is a Melbourne-based interior designer, stylist and boutique hotelier. She began her design career styling interiors and commercial spaces, where she refined her trademark aesthetic that coalesces antique and modern design details, then branched out to open her own independent retail and boutique accommodation ventures. Now, Lynda’s impressive repertoire boasts many varying roles, including that of retailer, stylist, interior designer and decorator, curator and creative director. Her newest projects – a collaboration with boutique Melbourne label Eva’s Sunday and the interiors and design book Curate – see her expand her talents even further into the realms of fashion and publishing. As with all her endeavours, the curation of designs for both projects is infused with her signature mix of rustic and modern influences that speaks to the stylistic inclinations of her many supporters and followers.
Photography by Lean Timms
For more information, follow Lynda Gardner on Instagram and on her website
Nicholas Knightly for Maison Moynat
In early 2020, the French heritage leather goods brand Maison Moynat announced their new creative director, Nicholas Knightly. Creator of the iconic and beloved Bayswater bag for Mulberry, Nicholas has honed his design skills as head designer at Margaret Howell, design director at Mulberry and a long tenure as leather goods design director at Louis Vuitton. We talked to him about his love of heritage, savoir-faire and craftsmanship and the joy of creative collaboration at Maison Moynat.
For more information, about Moynat follow on Instagram and on the website
Mark Hearld
British artist Mark Hearld is a self-proclaimed magpie whose joyful, raucous, often childlike curiosity and spirit for invention dynamically infuses his many creative endeavours, be it collage, printmaking, drawing and painting, linocuts, ceramics, wallpaper and textile design, clothing and accessory collaborations or museum curating. He is also the author of Raucous Invention: The Joy of Making (St Jude’s, 2021).
Photography by Antony Crolla
For more information, follow Mark Hearld on Instagram and on his website
Frédérique Morrel
A respected professor of art at the prestigious École Duperré Paris, designer, mother, artist and self-proclaimed ‘good witch’, Frédérique Morrel recently left Paris behind to make a home and creative sanctuary in the countryside of the Champagne region in north-east France. A prolific thrifter, she gleans and transforms unwanted, discarded ‘popular’ artefacts at charity shops and flea markets, revealing their neglected, hidden stories. Her work has seduced fellow designers Philippe Stark and Paul Smith and is held in prestigious international private collections.
Photography by Ruth Ribeaucourt
For more information, follow Frédérique Morrel on Instagram and on her website
Susann Probst and Yannic Schon
Susann Probst and Yannic Schon are photographers, the founders of food blog Krautkopf, celebrated photography workshop educators and advocates for living a slow life, connected to and inspired by nature. Collaborators in both work and life for almost 15 years, they left Berlin behind for a small village in north-east Germany where they have created their home and nurtured a lush garden, building a life that allows them to combine their two greatest passions: photography and cooking.
Photography by Sina Opalka
For more information, follow Krautkopf on Instagram and on their website
Carol Rama
Carol Rama didn’t draw a line between her life and her art – rather, it was a porous, throbbing membrane. Stories seep through, filter in transit, the slag upcycled. Her life was scandalous by some standards; others call it heroic. A chunk of it is preserved. From a pilfered antique Roman head to a pyramid of Marseille soap, Rama’s home – and studio – of 70 years is a biographical repository of beautiful, intriguing objects and furnishings. They are so precisely displayed that after Rama’s death at age 97 in 2015, Italian authorities listed and safeguarded the property.
Photography by Valentina Solfrini
For more information, follow Carol Rama on Instagram and on her website
Tony Ramos
Tony Ramos is a Cape Verdean American from East Providence who has made his life and atelier in the countryside of Les Alpilles in the South of France. He studied painting at Southern Illinois University and received an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts, where he was a graduate assistant to Allan Kaprow. He has received a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship, a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship and an Aspen Fellowship from the Aspen Institute among many other awards. During the 1970s and 1980s, Ramos travelled widely in Europe, Africa, China and the Middle East. He recorded video during the end of Portugal’s colonial rule of Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau, in Tehran during the 1980 hostage crisis and in Beijing just before the Tiananmen Square massacre. He has taught at Rhode Island School of Design, New York University and the University of California at San Diego among others. In the late 1980s, he turned to painting as his primary medium.
Photography by Anna Malmberg
Amanda Thompson
Fashion designer, textile aficionado and passionate advocate for creating ‘happy’ home interiors, Amanda Thompson has an infectious life-long love of learning, colour, pattern and texture. Her London home is filled with handmade decorative accents, a formidable straw hat collection and an unmistakable sense of joy.
Photography by Aloha Bonser-Shaw
For more information, follow Amanda Thompson on Instagram
Ruth Steadman
Ruth Steadman is a writer and storyteller. She authors the column for ‘Stories of Salt and Starlight’ for Faire Magazine. Ruth has also been published in Oh Magazine, while her poetry can be found in the anthology Poems For The NHS, and Popshot Magazine, as well as in a variety of poetry journals. She is currently working on her first non-fiction book, and building a performance storytelling practice.
Photograph by @gary.eason
For more information, follow Ruth on Instagram and on her website
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Our Contributors
Aloha Bonser-Shaw
Photography for Lora Avedian
Aloha Bonser-Shaw is a UK- based photographer whose work predominantly explores themes of nature, life cycles and grief. Aloha loves collaborating with artists from other disciplines and backgrounds and gaining insight into their practices.
Antony Crolla
Photography for Mark Hearld
Antony Crolla is a UK-based photographer whose career has encompassed everything from editorial fashion to commercial still life, from Norway to South Korea. He now specialises mainly in interiors and portraiture. Over the last 25 years clients have included Paul Smith, Adidas, Levi’s, The World of Interiors and L’uomo Vogue, among many others. He’s currently based in St Ives, Cornwall, famous for its beautiful light and golden sand beaches.
Dawn-Michelle Baude
Writer for Carol Rama
Dawn-Michelle Baude is an award-winning writer, editor and Senior Fulbright Scholar. The author of several nonfiction books, translations, and volumes of poetry, she is a prolific art critic and journalist, whose work has appeared digitally or in print in the Los Angeles Times, Huffington Post, Vogue and ArtCritical.com.
Sallie Lewis
Contributor to Jamie Beck (writer)
Sallie Lewis is a freelance writer balancing city and country living in her native Texas. Her stories have been published in AD, Condé Nast Traveler and the Wall Street Journal and have been recognised at the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Awards. Over the years, she’s had the pleasure of interviewing inspirational creatives like Diane von Fürstenberg, Christian Louboutin and the famed photojournalist Harry Benson, to name a few.
Anna Malmberg
Photography for Tony Ramos
Anna Malmberg is a Swedish photographer currently living in the South of France. She has had several exhibitions in Sweden, Italy and Taiwan.
Natalie Martinez
Photography for Liam Buckly and Ruth Faulkner
Born in London, Natalie started her career as a photographer shortly after becoming a mother just over 10 years ago. Shooting both portraits and events for global brands such as Soho House and Harper’s Bazaar, she is inspired by interiors and the environment surrounding her. Natalie is first and foremost a documentary photographer who loves to tell stories with her portraits and is always on the lookout for interesting subjects and their stories.
Kate Mogg
Contributor to Lynda Gardener (writer)
Kate Mogg is an Australian-born multidisciplinary creative residing in Melbourne. Previously working as a model both nationally and internationally, Kate returned home to pursue her literary passion and is currently completing her Professional Writing and Editing Degree as she undertakes creative and freelance writing projects.
Sina Opalka
Photography for Susann Probst and Yannic Schon
Based in Berlin, Sina Opalka is a photojournalist and photo editor. She describes photography as not only her profession, but as a tool to become part of different realities. For the past decade, Sina has spent much time on the road documenting stories with her camera as well as writing and photographing for magazines. She is predominantly interested in capturing the stories of creatives and makers of various fields and inspirational personalities promoting a sustainable lifestyle.
Kathryn Reichert
Photography for Stories of Salt & Starlight
Kathryn Reichert is best known for her genre-bending work in photography, blending digital and analogue media with alternative photographic processes. Her work circles the idea of the psychological landscape created by experiences, thoughts and memories and its impact on our varying perceptions of reality. Kathryn holds a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks and currently lives in New Jersey with her husband, two children and a closet full of cameras.
Valentina Solfrini
Photography for Carol Rama
Valentina is a photographer who specialises in food, drink and lifestyle, based in the medieval village of Gradara, Italy. She is known for her romantic photography style and has spent the past eight years photographing books and teaching the trade. Travel is her favourite fuel to foster her creativity.
Lean Timms
Photography for Lynda Gardener
Lean Timms is an Australian travel, lifestyle and food photographer working across editorial, commercial and publishing fields. Forever exploring and full of curiosity for this world, Lean’s greatest love is to discover and document inspiring places and stories. Lean’s approach to photography is driven by natural light, in situ spontaneity, storytelling and capturing a genuine sense of place.