Watching Paint Dry

In the last episode of Season One, host Emma Jane Palin chats with art director, brand consultant and writer Africa Daley-Clarke, also known online as The Vitamin D Project. With Africa focusing on a more sustainable approach to interiors, fashion, and childrenswear, the pair discuss sustainable solutions for growing families, as well as how Africa uses social media to highlight social injustice....

In this episode of Watching Paint Dry, interior stylist and author Emily Henson speaks on life as an interior stylist, creativity over consumption within interiors, and how to get stuck in DIY in your own home. Emily is an experienced set designer, interior stylist and author working in photography and film for interiors, fashion, tech, lifestyle and food brands. As one of the OG bloggers she has...

Emma Jane Palin sits down to chat with copywriter and content creator Sheree Millington about her journey on Interior Design Masters, buying a home as a single person, and decorating your home based on your mood. Sheree started her professional career as a journalist at VICE magazine, but has since turned to copywriting, and now works in-house at a huge retailer. She bought her first home in Marga...

In this episode of Watching Paint Dry, British singer songwriter, Lo Barnes shares how her journey as an unsigned musician has developed her relationship with her home. Together with host Emma Jane Palin, she discusses the importance of community as an artist, how interiors affect her creative (and not so) creative process, and the parallels between Lo being a female in the music industry and Emma...

Sara Brown chats to host Emma Jane Palin about everything from decorating her rental, to her love for craft and fashion. Sara is a size-inclusive brand consultant as well as incredible content creator and designer who has worked with brands such as GANNI and Joanie Clothing, as well as her own lifestyle brand Dolly Rocket. She regualrly contributes to online platform Who What Wear representing plu...

In the latest episode of Watching Paint Dry, Emma sits down for a chat with Naomi and Natalie Evans of online anti-racism platform, Everyday Racism. The duo shine a light on important topics such as diversity and inequality within interiors, if certain interior design styles can stem from racism, and how their own heritage has shaped each of their homes respectively. The episode aims to offer tang...

In this episode of Watching Paint Dry, host Emma Jane Palin chats with vintage homeware store owner, Marie Pontefract. Marie set up Albie & Pearl after nearly 20 years of working as a womenswear designer. Having become dismayed at the amount of waste created within the industry, she now curates joyful collections of vintage homewares, art and lighting, whilst having as little impact on the pla...

Kicking off season one of Watching Paint Dry, upholsterer, designer and founder of Margate Design Collective, Jesse du Preez speaks to host Emma Jane Palin about their journey post-Interior Design Masters. After discussing what they discovered from their journey on the BBC television show, we delved into creating spaces for the LGBTQ+ community, how neurodivergence has shaped a career in upholster...

Watching Paint Dry host Emma Jane Palin meets her first guest, Emma Jane Palin! Emma takes part in her quick-fire question round - will it be the big light or little lights? Let's find out!

Our homes are intrinsically linked to who we are. They’re a safe space, but they’re also where we take part in honest conversation, work on creative endeavours, build relationships - live, laugh, love, and all that. The Watching Paint Dry podcast aims to tap into the intersectionality of our lives and homes. In each episode, interior stylist, writer and content creator Emma Jane Palin explores the...