Lulu Lytle and Sophie Coryndon’s shared love of medieval manuscripts and Renaissance art is at the heart of their new collaboration. The patterns they have developed together draw the viewer into a subtle world of often-overlooked imagery, from the punched gold background of a Pre-Reformation altar panel to the tapestry of wild flowers underfoot in a Renaissance painting.
There can be a remarkable beauty in the everyday objects that surround us, though it takes a special kind of attention to appreciate it. Would the clients entering a sixteenth-century apothecary’s shop, for example, have appreciated the cheerful patterns that decorated the jars in which the ointments and powders to cure them were kept?
