Alhambra from Beverley Wilkes has consolidated on her runaway success with Avignon in the 2009 Home and Away Collection. Once more on familiar territory, Beverley opted for Spain and the Moorish influences on the City of Alhambra for design inspiration. Set against a backcloth of the Sierra Nevada mountains, Alhambra is a majestic design in both its depth of vision and subject matter.

The terracotta roofs of the houses and the pale blue sky almost talk with each other, while the mountains set everything in a perspective of human endeavour and natural grandeur. Almost inevitably, Beverley Wilkes’ Alhambra also underwent a metamorphosis on to Moorcroft’s prestige stage. Popular as the small limited edition has been, the prestige version promises its owners even more.

Beverley chose the angular elegance of the 72 shape, also 20 inches tall, knowing a prestige version of a landscape design such as Alhambra should pull the viewer closer to the detail. In this, Beverley has succeeded and the prestige Alhambra is all the richer for it.