Viva Brighton Issue #82 December 2019

THIS MONTH’S COVER ARTIST
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Anneli Fleming-Brown is good at doing
Christmas; something she puts down to her
Scandinavian roots. Her mother was Finnish,
her father Scottish (hence her business name,
Scofinn) and she grew up spending summers
in the family’s ancestral village, deep in the
countryside north of Helsinki. She still visits as
often as she can.
The clean lines and simple aesthetic of
Scandinavian design have strongly influenced
Anneli’s own work as an illustrator and textile
designer. Inspired by her Finnish grandmother
she studied woven textiles at Central School
of Art and then, as a post-graduate student,
Illustration at St Martins. Her designs have
featured in magazines, greetings cards and on
fabrics for the likes of Habitat and Crate and
Barrel, and, with advances in digital printing,
she’s enjoying seeing her work appear on an
increasingly varied range of products (earlier
this year she was commissioned to create
a bespoke glass kitchen splashback). For
our cover she’s gathered together all sorts
of Christmas essentials, with a nod to the
great outdoors, “of course you’ll see the logs,
pinecones and berries featured in the pic as we
Scandinavians love a bit of foraging in nature at
any time of the year!”
The Nordic influence is also evident in Anneli’s
beautiful home, where an air of understated
Scandi elegance prevails. When I visit, she is
busy chasing an order for her printed tea towels
and melamine boards, ready for her Christmas
Open House: Northern Lights at 29 Lancaster
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