Niva: A Quiet Kind of Magic — Introducing Our Fourth Collaboration with Catherine Rowe

Some seasons ask to be loud. Winter has never been one of them. There's a particular magic to the colder months - snow settling over everything, the world seeming to hold it

s breath -and it's that quiet, wintry stillness we've spent this year exploring with illustrator Catherine Rowe. 

Niva is the third chapter in our Divine Nature series, following Eve and Orla, and our fourth collaboration with Catherine, following the much-loved Into the Woods collection. It might be her most atmospheric yet. Where Into the Woods was daylight and mischief, Niva is nocturnal - an ethereal, secret woodland feel, classical and a little festive, with a stillness and quiet strength running through every piece. 

Catherine’s process always starts the same way: time outdoors, sketchbooks full of half-formed ideas, a slow build from loose lines to finished artwork. For Niva, that meant tracing the creatures of an English winter like a snowy barn owl, robins and foxes, or moths pale as moonlight - into two new prints, each telling its own quiet story.

"It's about a quiet story," Catherine explains, "silence, light, reverence and sacred winter, and all the beautiful beasts and insects and flora that are still around in a very cold time when there's lots of hibernation and not a lot going on in plain sight. But actually nature is still thriving, in her own way." 

The idea, that magic that doesn’t announce itself, runs through the whole collection.

The Niva print, in a classic black colourway with forest green trim, appears across our new top handle bag, backpack and detachable scarf charm. A second print, exclusive to our square scarf, is worked in forest green: a fox and a deer face each other in quiet symmetry, watched over by a scatter of pale moths - a detail Catherine researched closely, drawn to the silvery, light-coloured moths native to Britain. 

Elsewhere, the collection turns to jewellery. Pearl detailed pieces finished with small charms, each carrying its own piece of woodland folklore. A robin for hope and new beginnings. Mistletoe for love, friendship and peace. Ivy for protection. A heart, simply, for love. Small symbols, worn close.