The Power of Colour

A Letter from Isabel

I am sure we are all staring at the same walls and looking for inspiration, solace or distraction… and I remembered the day we asked historic paint specialist Pedro Da Costa Felgueiras to create a coloured room at Connolly (pictured above) that would become an inspiration for us… a colour that would connect and thrill and that would work within the confines of a small early Georgian building. Possibly one of the most intensely satisfying and expensive decorating projects I have ever undertaken but it became an art form with the pigments hand mixed by Pedro and layered on in glazes then allowed to dry before the next layer could be applied. But whatever pictures we hang on it or objects we place with it – the result is magnificently uplifting!  It became the much loved Connolly Yellow Room.