Get insider tips from The Redland London Brand Ambassadors, the inspiring and well travelled group of men and women handpicked to give us their local lowdown.
A School of Design graduate, she spent years in the graphic design field. She has returned to her true passion of drawing, illustrating projects around food for clients all over the world.
She uses simple, colourful and witty style to reflect feel-good living in her work. Ana’s clients include Carluccio’s, Jamie’s Magazine, Whole Foods Market, Fairtrade Foundation UK, IKEA, Conde Nast, Penguin Random House, BBC, Pams, Papyrus, amongst many others.
Where do you find inspiration:
I am drawn to nature, music and colours. Everything that makes me laugh or curious inspires me.
Top retreat:
Spending hot summer days in a charming house in a peaceful hidden istrian village.
Favourite hangout:
Anywhere – if good friends, good food, and good wine are included.
Best book:
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Indispensable fashion tip:
Keep it simple.
Life motto:
Have courage to do what you love.
I juggle two careers, working part-time as a TV producer and part-time as a pscyhotherapist. Totally different, but complementary. In TV I work exclusively in comedy on shows I co-created, namely Mock The Week and Whose Line Is It Anyway? My therapy work, on the other hand, is obviously serious and thoughtful.
Where do you find inspiration:
Travelling
Top retreat:
Napoleon’s army at Austerlitz
Favourite Hangout:
Cafe in the Gardens, Russell Square
Best book:
Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
Indispensable fashion tip:
Never wear socks with sandals
Life motto:
Never wear socks with sandals!
Outside of work, Ben moonlights as a musician in an acclaimed band that has received airplay on BBC radio and has also seen him perform at several festivals including Glastonbury and Secret Garden Party.
Together with cinema and music, Ben takes his travelling and sport very seriously.
Where do you find inspiration:
Top of the Alps, attached to a snowboard
Top retreat:.
Barefoot at Havelock, Andaman Islands
Favourite hangout:
Soho House, West Hollywood (for its spectacular city views)
Best book:
Papillon
Indispensable fashion tip:
You can never go wrong with a pocket square
Life motto:
Never say never
Where do you find inspiration:
From being in London – the outside space around Hampstead Heath; stories from when I was younger; the surreal world; things I have in my home which I grew up with.
Top retreat:
Coweth Park, Berkshire
Favourite Hangout:
Sketch, London
Best book:
The curious story of the dog in the night
Indispensable fashion tip:
A good pair of earings
Life motto:
Try try try until you succeed
Richard has traveled extensively – usually on sailing or mountaineering trips. He has undertaken a number of fundraising expeditions for cancer charities, including skippering a yacht in the 2003 Fastnet Race, competing in the 2005 Transatlantic Rowing Race, cycling the route of Tour de France in 2009 and sailing solo across the Atlantic along the Tropic of Cancer in a 21ft yacht in 2013.
Richard lives in Hampshire with his wife and two children.
Where do you find inspiration:
In remote and wild places
Top retreat:
A treehouse suite at the Chewton Glen Hotel, UK
Favourite hangout:
Rebecca’s in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia
Best book:
The English Patient
Indispensable fashion tip:
‘There’s no such thing as bad weather, only unsuitable clothing.’
Life motto:
Go big or go home…!
Where do you find inspiration:
Childrens books, Comics, Asian films, music, children
Top retreat:
The toilet (I’m being honest)
Best book:
Many from the thousands in my collection, although I often refer to the work of Hayao Miyazaki
Indispensable fashion tip:
Keep it simple
Life motto:
Keep it simple
Kitt is a crowd-pleasing DJ playing timeless house, deep disco & Balearic love songs. Having played as far afield as China, travelled all around Europe for private bookings & rocked clubs as illustrious as Space, Ibiza this one chap that knows what he is doing.
Where do you find inspiration:
Ripping pages out of free magazines, the book shop at Whitechapel gallery (& the gallery itself) & from whatever portal Exmouth cafe’s coffee opens up.
Top retreat:
The two room Badger Vs Baboon bed & breakfast near D’Alt Villa in Ibiza’s Old Town &/or my Mums.
Favourite hangout:
Home!
Best book:
Brideshead Revisited. Not just my favourite book but my favourite thing of all time. I was into it I couldn’t move. I was on a beach & got bad heatstroke. I was so badly burnt that at one point I had to Google whether or not I was going to die.
Indispensable fashion tip:
Throw it all out & start again.
Life motto:
Good taste is the ENEMY of creativity.
Where do you find inspiration:
Once a month I go to a new country for 48-72 hours. It started as an accident but now I do it on purpose. It forces me to approach travel and time economically. Make it count. Forces me to methodically get lost and inspires brilliant disasters yielding amazing friendships and hilarious stories. People inspire me. Surround yourself with great story tellers, and people that obsess over things others ignore.
Top retreat:
Whistler Vancouver. I love the Cold.
Favourite hangout:
Public Transportation, Hotel Lobbies, Rooftop bars.
Best book:
The count of monte cristo, Alexandre Dumas
Indispensable fashion tip:
Buy cheap buy twice.
Life motto:
Ignore currency acquire experience.