Auburn and red: three women, three studio habits, and the rarest colouring in the edit
Red hair is the least common colouring in the edit and perhaps the most changeable, since it never looks the same twice: copper beside a window, nearly brown by lamplight, a flare of real red the moment a door opens onto the street. Three women wear it, each in a different register.
They share something else, which is why this page reads more like a studio visit than a list. Each of the three makes things with her hands in her own time, and each will talk about it with the particular pleasure of someone who does it for love rather than applause. None of them expects you to share the interest; they are simply better company for having one.
Auburn and red, in the edit
Lea, with clay on her cuffs
Lea wears auburn in long, loose waves, hazel eyed and petite at 161 cm. Her Sundays go to the pottery wheel and her weekdays, in spirit at least, to interiors: she will rearrange a hotel suite in a sentence and point out the one lamp that lets it down. She lives in Belgravia, and her favourite route runs past the hand-thrown pieces at Pantechnicon on Motcomb Street towards a new play at the Royal Court.
Luna, behind a portrait lens
Luna is the reddest of the three, a dark auburn with a vivid flash of red, brown eyed and curvy at 171 cm. She photographs faces, reads a wine list with real confidence and is rarely without a plan for the theatre. Her company suits a glass before curtain up and a spirited debate in the interval, and the Victoria Palace Theatre is a short walk from most SW1 hotels. She lives in Mayfair.
Patricia, with a paintbox
Patricia wears the softest of the three shades, a long auburn brown, with gentle brown eyes and a slim 172 cm frame. She paints in watercolour, very often the garden squares around her Eaton Square home, loves black and white detective films and never walks past a secondhand bookshop without stepping inside. Her evenings tend to begin in the garden lounge at The Goring, sketchbook within reach.
What makers bring to an evening
People who make things tend to watch closely before they speak, and all three are happiest when an evening has something at its centre: a play, an exhibition, a film or a dinner with a story to it. Lea will have an opinion on the lighting before the first course arrives, Luna on the casting, Patricia on the view from the window. For a week of those, a season in SW1 keeps the same companion across several evenings. For a single night, two hours at £750 suits one act, and four hours at £1,300 allows dinner too.
Where else the three appear
Lea sits among the petite plates and, with Luna, in the early twenties. Luna also appears as curvaceous. Patricia belongs to the statuesque and slim and slender sets and to the late twenties.
Arranging an evening with one of them
An hour with any of the three is priced at £400, and every longer format is listed on the rates page. Because the set is so small, it helps to name a second choice when you write through booking; Rosie will say at once which of the three is free.
Seen a face you like? Ask for her by name.
Or describe the evening and let Rosie choose. Either way you receive a written reply naming who is free, what it costs and when she can knock.