From stylish tiles to curated colours, discover Claybrook paints

26th May 2025

Regular blog readers may have spotted a mention of Claybrook in the Makeup for Walls post last month. Having previously sampled a few colours, including Montagu & Harvest Festival, Art & Hue was delighted to receive more swatches to discover a wider selection of Claybrook’s paints.

Firstly, to introduce Claybrook, it was founded in 2017 by Rob Whitaker, Andy Manders, and Lucy Kenna, all former directors at Fired Earth, and launched in 2018 with a stylish collection of wall and floor tiles. They’ve expanded their ranges to include paints, which naturally coordinate perfectly with their tiles, and, more recently, baths and basins. With shops in London’s Shoreditch and on the King’s Road, Claybrook also have a studio in Banbury, Oxfordshire, where you can explore their range of tiles and bathroom collections.

A selection of Claybrook yellow paint colours

They clearly have a keen design eye for picking out key looks that look great alongside current contemporary trends but which also aren’t going to date. Their timeless selection of paint colours is a case in point; they may not have the largest amount of colours available compared to other larger paint brands but what they do have is a tight edit of curated and desirable colours to fall in love with.

It’s worth mentioning that, going by the painted sample swatches, Claybrook’s paints have a complexity to them; they’re not just “flat” colour but change with the light. Depending on the time of day, some of their paints, such as Cinnamon Roll & Hay Bale, vary in tone from a yellow to pink cast and that’s presumably down to the pigments involved – pure guesswork on Art & Hue’s part of course but either that or it’s sorcery of some kind. Montagu & Harvest Festival move from creamy blush pink to sepia oranges as the sun changes so should help a room’s design scheme come alive.

Incidentally, Claybrook are clearly having fun when it comes to naming their paints; a small sampling of paint names that made Art & Hue smile include Kate Blush (a beautiful plaster pink tone named after the singer/songwriter), Patsy Stone (a stone colour named after the iconic fash mag editor from Absolutely Fabulous), and Sweeney Brown (a deep 70s brown after the cop series with John Thaw & Dennis Waterman). There’s even a colour called Plaster Cast, inspired by the Ashmolean Museum‘s exhibits in Oxford, and a beautiful terrazzo tile called Kajagoogoo Limahl.

Claybrook paint swatches with Art & Hue colours

Claybrook colours of Lemon Squeezy, Kate Blush & Plunge Pool with Art & Hue’s signature colours.

Now, the original concept for Art & Hue’s new HQ (new to Art & Hue at least – the house was built in 1964 for one careful previous owner) was a mix of yellow, pink and aqua with touches of bright orange but having received Claybrook’s sample swatches, that plan may well be out the mustard-tile-trimmed window.

Claybrook’s yellow tones, such as Larkhill, Lemon Squeezy & Mellow Mustard, are all unique from each other yet would coordinate well, in the same room or across a home. Likewise their neutrals mix beautifully with their blues, teals and pinks.

As an example, take a look at the grouping below featuring just some of Claybrook’s warm tones; ranging from the palest to the deepest, it’s seriously tempting to paint the entire house in this one chromatic scale of complex hues. Moving from warm skin tones through to deep terracottas and browns, it’s a simple way of coordinating the entire house without having to give too much time and thought to picking out colours.
A selection of Claybrook warm paint colours
Claybrook colours: Plaster Cast, Larkhill, Harvest Festival, Montagu, Lobster Bisque, Reclaimed Brick & Saffron Tan.

Of course, colours can be mixed, such as using the hallway colour on the ceiling in the lounge so each space speaks nicely to each other, but even if each room was its own drenched single colour, working through the same chromatic palette means they’ll all get on well.

That doesn’t mean the initial concept of yellow, pink & aqua (and not forgetting the all important touches of bright orange) can’t be incorporated but, rather than painting the walls in the brights, they can be in the art prints, the lamps, and other pieces.

Claybrook paint colours
Claybrook paint swatches, from left to right, top to bottom:
Lemon Squeezy, Hay Bale, Mellow Mustard, Bellicose, Luca’s Locks, Cinnamon Roll;
Larkhill, Harvest Festival, Montagu, Lobster Bisque, Reclaimed Brick, Saffron Tan;
Astwell White, Plaster Cast, Powderpuff, Isabel’s Bloom, Kate Blush, 1974;
Patsy Stone, Scarlett’s Crystal, Evelyn’s Easel, Jack’s Room, Plunge Pool.

To see how they play together, Art & Hue couldn’t resist dropping in some pop art (quickly & roughly) into Claybrook’s images of their wall colours, as well as adding bubbly Barbara Windsor in a bubble bath into one of their photographs of their tiles and freestanding bath.

To explore Claybrook’s full range of paint colours, as well as to discover their stylish baths and tiles (Art & Hue is in love with their terrazzo tiles, as well as their glossy Zellige-style porcelain tiles, which will be firmly in mind when time – and budget – allows to renovate the kitchen and bathrooms), visit their website here.

Claybrook bathroom tiles & bath with Barbara Windsor print by Art & Hue
Claybrook’s Watergate Claw Foot Bath, Kajagoogoo Limahl terrazzo floor tile, Corrugation White Gloss & Corrugation Ripple wall tiles, with Art & Hue’s Barbara Windsor pop art print.

Claybrook's Sweeney Brown paint colour with Art & Hue's John Thaw print
Claybrook’s Sweeney Brown paint colour with Art & Hue’s John Thaw print.

Claybrook Lemon Squeezy & Hay Bale with Mr Creamy prints by Art & Hue
Claybrook’s Lemon Squeezy & Hay Bale with Art & Hue’s Mr. Creamy ice cream prints.