Arte House is looking for a Summer Sales Assistant to join our small team in West London over the summer months. This role would suit someone with a genuine interest in art, antiques, interiors and design, who enjoys working with people and feels comfortable within a creative retail environment.

Mary Fedden (1915–2012) was a British painter whose lyrical still lifes and landscapes are instantly recognisable for their bold colour, simplified form and quiet expressiveness. Born in Bristol, she studied at the Slade School of Art under the Ballets Russes designer Vladimir Polunin. After an early period working in theatre and set design, she returned to painting, developing a visual language that was both modern and deeply personal — influenced by Matisse, Winifred Nicholson and Henri Hayden, yet entirely her own.

Roger Hilton CBE (1911–1975) was a pioneering British painter whose career bridged European modernism and post-war British abstraction. Associated with the St Ives School, though always independent of it, Hilton developed a bold, instinctive visual language shaped by tachisme, CoBrA and the natural world.

Ben Nicholson (1894–1982) was a leading figure in British modernism, celebrated for his abstract reliefs and carefully structured still lifes. Born in Denham, Buckinghamshire, to the artists William Nicholson and Mabel Pryde, he studied at the Slade School of Art before travelling extensively across Europe and the United States throughout the 1910s and 1920s. During this period, he drew inspiration from Post-Impressionist and Cubist ideas, which would shape his evolving artistic voice.

Christopher Marvell (b. 1964, Clacton) studied at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne before moving to Cambridge, where he began working in a studio at Fulbourn Manor with artist and designer Marjorie Townley. He now works from a light-filled sculpture studio in the garden of his Cambridgeshire home, which he shares with his wife, the artist Elaine Pamphilon. The space is scattered with plaster moulds of animals and monumental, life-sized figures. 

Richard Cook’s (b.1947, Cheltenham) paintings are rooted in the Cornish landscape, where he lives and works in Newlyn. His work explores the meeting points of land, sea and sky, capturing the shifting moods and elemental energy of the place. Each canvas unfolds intuitively through layered textures and nuanced colour, evoking both the physical and emotional presence of the landscape.

Nicola Gillis is a Brighton-based ceramicist specialising in functional tableware. Her work is inspired by East Asian traditions, where each vessel has a specific purpose and pleasure is found in its individuality rather than uniformity. Embracing imperfection, Nicola does not seek to replicate exact sizes or marks, allowing subtle variations to remain part of the making process.

Isobel Harvey’s paintings are rooted in an attentive study of rhythm and pattern in the natural world. Birds, fish, horses and other symbolic forms appear and reappear across her work, their shapes shifting through layers of oil and acrylic. Compositions are built through a process of construction and erasure, where images are overpainted and reconfigured, creating depth, translucency and a sense of quiet, methodical movement.

Shaskia Cuaspa (b. 1993, Bogotá, Colombia) is an expressionist, figurative artist based in Southern California. She moved to the United States at the age of eight with her mother, whose strength and resilience continue to shape both her life and her work.

David Schmitt (b. 1994, Bamberg, Germany) is a self-taught painter and printmaker based in Barcelona. After studying Graphic Design at the University of Applied Sciences in Augsburg, he moved to Spain, where he now lives and works.

Austin Austin is a Norfolk-based organic skincare brand founded by daughter and father duo Bessie and Richard Austin. Their family-run business embodies decades of commitment to natural living, creating beautiful everyday skincare products that transform bathroom shelves through deeply aesthetic design and exceptional organic quality.

Based in North Yorkshire, Charlotte Salt is a British ceramicist creating one of a kind sculptural works that bring joy to each room they belong in. Her artistic journey is rooted in a familial story of ceramics — her parents established their own pottery studio before she was born, fostering what would become her lifelong relationship with the medium.

Charvet Editions is one of France's oldest and most renowned textile companies, established in 1866 in Armentières, Northern France — a region historically known as the 'City of Canvas'. Specialising in linen weaving, they produce the highest quality of traditional linens for the home that reflect their rich heritage.

Hopewood Baskets craft stunning sculptural vessels that enrich living spaces and routines, bringing nature into the modern home. Founded by Sarah Loughlin and Marcus Wootton, this Worcestershire-based studio create their intricate baskets from British willow, honouring time-old practices of weaving.

Iva Polachova is a London-based ceramicist whose serene hand-built vessels embody a philosophy of essential beauty through simplicity. Based in Ladbroke Grove in the heart of Notting Hill, she lives just around the corner from Arte House; we found her beautiful work through this local connection to the area and her genuine love of our shop.

Julia Rapson is a fine artist, curator, and maker whose brand, Rapson de Pauley, blends heritage craftsmanship with modern design. Inspired by ancient symbols and everyday beauty, she creates wearable art with timeless elegance.

Founded by London-based designers Austin Moro and Eliza Dabron, the brand emerged from a shared aesthetic sensibility and love of romantic interiors and gardens, creating a poetic dialogue between scent and space.

Founded between Japan and the UK, Niwaki is a thoughtfully curated collection of beautiful garden tools that bridge the traditional gardening practices and sensibilities of these two cultures. 

Paige Mitchell is a British ceramicist whose distinctive work emerges from routines of daily life. She creates beautiful pieces made for living, bridging art and function across an expansive range of objects that are playful in their illustrative styles whilst being refined in form. 

Handmade in London by maker Hannah Cleaton-Roberts, Peckham Cloth creates thoughtfully designed waxed-cloth bread bags to reduce waste in the home.