“We make colors taken from popular culture, not stately homes,” says Simon March, proprietor of Colour Makes You Happy, “using ingredients from the South Downs including linseed oil, chalk, and alabaster." Take a look his offerings.
Simon March in front of his Lewes, East Sussex, shop with his young son.
“We are able to color match in store or you can try our paint bar, where colors are created by hand at the counter,” March says.
Pigments line the walls of the shop, ready for experimentation.
“At very middle-class dinner parties people laugh at the names of Farrow & Ball colors,” March told Port Magazine. “I try to subvert that, to be a bit irreverent, a bit absurd."