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claim the right to critique by dint of her DNA. “Hugh Ramsay was my
great-uncle,” she says, leading to a small wall-hung self-portrait of the
Scottish émigré artist who enjoyed exceptional Salon success in Paris before
dying of tuberculosis in 1906 at the age of 28. “He was an artist’s artist.”
Ramsay’s ripple effect across the generations tells in artist Michael Vale’s
painting, The Smoking Dog — King of the Road — a ‘super-fiction’ about
a dog that thinks itself human.It fulminates with Ramsay’s sensitivity tothis page, clockwise from top left: glass concertinas open to a kitchen garden.
TIM JONES’s hand-carved timber sculpture Books, from Franque, in Pitzy’s
study. ‘Lederam’ wall light by ENZO CATELLANI for Catellani & Smith,
from Hub Furniture. Georgian revival style of original architecture. JOSHUA
YELDHAM’s Resonance — Morning Bay in the ground-floor hallway.
opposite page: in the formal sitting room, FRED GANIM’s custom-made coffee
table, ‘U’, set with eight miniature iterations of Landscape by GREG WOOD;
Joshua Yeldham’s Owl Rock — Smith’s Creek. SASKIA FOLK panel
artwork; shelves by CHARLIE INGLIS, custom-made by Fineform Joinery.