JESSICA GRINDSTAFF

Jessica Grindstaff is an avant-garde theatre director from New York. Her life and work provides us with an extraordinary example of the power of personal transformation. Estranged from her parents at a young age, she lived in foster care before ultimately using her creativity to break the cycle of intergenerational trauma and forging a new life for herself and her young family. She provides the world with a gift through her theatre work via Phantom Limb Company, which she co-founded with her puppet-maker husband Erik Santo. Jessica’s theatre works feel like an extension of her earliest childhood pastimes.


AMBER GUINNESS

Cook and author Amber Guinness and her sister Claudia learnt the culinary arts in childhood while shadowing their mother, interior designer Camilla Guinness, in the kitchen of their Tuscan farmhouse, Arniano. The recipes learned culminated in Amber’s beautiful new book ‘A House Party in Tuscany’ which explores their lives through food. The book is also an homage to Amber’s late father, Jasper, who created Arniano’s garden, which is now immortalized in hundreds of paintings created by students of the Arniano Painting Holiday, that Amber co- founded with her friend William Roper-Curzon.

CAMILLA GUINNESS

Camilla’s feeling for fabric, colour, texture and form were developed during her childhood in England, in the workshop of her mother, artist and fashion designer Sally Uniacke. From the outset, Camilla applied what she learned into creating spectacular interiors in London, New York and Tuscany, channeling her elevated bohemian aesthetic into the otherworldly homes of style icons like the late, great Isabella Blow. “Creating the interiors at Arniano was one of my greatest passion projects” she says. “I’ve always loved making attractive environments, even in childhood when I’d transform the insides of our barns into cosy interiors on my family’s property near England’s south coast. Even in those early years, I knew the effect interiors could have on me emotionally: I couldn’t bare to be in a room that I didn’t like the look of as it would affect my mood and make me feel unhappy.”


JO YELDHAM

The wild and untouched landscapes often featured in Australian photographer, Jo Yeldham’s work, are undoubtedly her greatest inspirations. The artist, who approaches each project with a palpable ebullience, uses this profound connection with nature to turn art into action, partnering with organizations to help combat climate change and support a greener future. It’s the same passion with which she champions her fellow female creatives, as evidenced by her support and celebration of her soul sister, Heidi Middleton, whose beautiful bond is evidenced in their every interaction.

LISBETH MCCOY

Lisbeth McCoy is a Danish-born, NY-based sculptor and multi-media artist. As an artist, she is guided by what she calls her ‘inner landscapes’, including memories of her early life on the Danish island of Funan. Those memories inform her work, the interiors of her homes and aesthetics of her studio. Her sculptures, mobiles and works on paper convey the power and beauty of the natural world, and also pay homage to the influence of her mother who died suddenly when Lisbeth was just 14. In the devastating aftermath, Lisbeth stopped pursuing many of her interests, including horse riding and dancing, both of which she has embraced again as an adult.


HEIDI MIDDLETON

Australian fashion designer and artist Heidi Middleton is at the forefront of the circular fashion movement in Australia. 90% of her limited-edition garments are made with dead stock. She fills her cup by painting on weekends and traveling on creative adventures with her soul-sister and best friend, photographer Jo Yeldham. Whether they are heading into the Australian outback, or to rural France, they’ll pack a portable studio of paints, paper, cameras and garments.


FRANCESCA GOLOTTA

Australian photographic artist Francesca Golotta and her sister, jewelery designer Fiorina, joined forces as co-creators when they were young girls. Urged by their father to pursue high- paying careers in the law, medicine or finance, they rebelled from an early age, determined to pursue creative professions. With each of them the champion of the other, they resisted their father’s pressure and now thrive in their respective creative roles, with a magnificent store and studio in Melbourne, Australia, and a global following.

LUISA BECCARIA

Luisa Beccaria started drawing when she was just a child, eventually weaving her passion for art, fashion and nature into the ethereal and romantic gowns she would create while studying literature at university. At the age of 20, however, an opportunity to exhibit her pieces in Piero Fornasetti's art gallery was a professional watershed moment for the young designer, who has been dressing some of the world’s most glamorous women ever since, from her renowned Milan atelier. In 2014, she appointed her beautiful and equally talented daughter, Lucilla, as co- designer. They straddle life in Milan, with regular sojourns in the family castle in Sicily, two vastly different worlds tied together with the same desire to infuse life in all its aspects with beauty. The various influences, ancient Italy and the new world, collide in their magnificent collections.


LUCILLA BECCARIA


Lucilla Bonaccorsi Beccaria, grew up in the atelier of her fashion-designer mother Luisa in Milan. Young Lucilla would make things from ribbons, buttons, braids and fabrics in her spare time and fall asleep backstage during the fashion parades. In 2014, after an unofficial apprenticeship which unfolded over several decades, she joined her mother’s design atelier. “Each season’s collection is born from a theme that I work on with my mother. We are especially drawn to historical paintings, whether by Boldini, Manet or Klimt. From there we design the fabrics, choose the dye colours, have them woven in Italy or France, then build the collections around these magnificent textiles.”