Graphic scenes in a rural Kent home

Designer Anthony Burrill and his wife Emma have embraced country house living on their own terms

If you know about Anthony Burrill and the upbeat graphic slogan prints he creates, you might guess that he lives in a creative urban hotspot – east London, Glasgow, Bristol… Actually, he lives with his wife Emma, two almost-grown-up children, their spaniel Pip, plus some chickens in a former granary, deep in rural Kent.

The couple met at the Royal College of Art when Emma was studying photography and Anthony, from Lancashire via Leeds University, was studying graphic design. After graduating, they worked from their kitchen in Brixton but, with the arrival of their second child, they decided to move. “We both grew up in rural places so we wanted to escape the city and be nearer to the beach. Emma’s from this area and we fell for this village because of the lovely school, and made our plans around that,” says Anthony.

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