To kick-start a colourful New Year, we’re celebrating some of the best Chalk Painters in Europe by shining a light on their creativity and artistry, handpicked by Annie Sloan.

Over the coming months we’ll be sharing their work to inspire your own painting adventures. Stay tuned, over 2026 we’ll be celebrating their creations. In the meantime, check out their bios and make sure you follow them all!

Congratulations to our new Star Painters and welcome to the family.

Sharon Audrey Ingoldby

@audrey_and_abode

Sharon, founder of Audrey and Abode, is an interior designer in the Herefordshire hills in the UK. Discovering furniture painting as a child, she turned a 1940s dressing table into a lifelong passion. Working from a converted horse box, she creates original and commissioned pieces across the UK, bringing colour, pattern, and personality to every surface, inspired by folk art and family tradition.

Gosia Roczniak

@not_if_i_can_paint_it

Gosia Roczniak is a furniture painter based in Somerset, UK. Originally from Poland, she studied Interior Architecture and Design in London. After working in architecture, she returned to painting through furniture, combining geometry, abstraction, and colour. Her hand-painted pieces explore texture and palette with a playful, thoughtful approach inspired by her enduring fascination with visual art and colour.

Paulina Balińska-Kowal

@loveredesign

Paulina Balińska-Kowal is a furniture stylist and painter based in Limanowa, southern Poland, running her studio for over twelve years. Her work features bold colours, varied textures, and modern design influences, particularly 1970s German ceramics, of which she is a passionate collector. Alongside her creative practice, she is also a devoted mother of four sons.

Adeline  Lemétais

@sardinedeloire

Adèle Lemétais, trained in art history, explores what paintings reveal about interiors, objects, and everyday life. Her playful, naïve world features recurring dogs and cats. Based in France, she is influenced by Swiss Bauernmalerei and folk traditions, and she balances digital museum-souvenir work with hands-on gouache painting on furniture, porcelain, tiles, and paper, favouring small formats for freedom and joy and playful creative exploration.

Aga Mandziuk

@lanascotta

Aga Mandziuk is a Polish-born artist based in Padua, Italy. She holds a degree in Communication Sciences and works as a Local Producer for the Polish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. After years in a metal workshop, she developed a strong sensitivity to surfaces and colour, now using Annie Sloan paints to create bold, emotionally driven furniture pieces.

Kelly Akkouchi

@attic_monkey_

Kelly Acckouchi, aka Attic Monkey, is a furniture painter who breathes new life into old objects. Using Annie Sloan paints, she transforms furniture, lampshades, doors, and walls with bold, playful colour. Based in Diksmuide, Belgium, her home is a vibrant playground of hand-painted pieces, while her workshops inspire others to experiment, embrace creativity, and rediscover joy through colour and upcycled treasures.

Heidi  Roper

@dingleydellcreative

Heidi Roper creates a colourful world where pattern and creativity take centre stage. From her riverside workshop on the River Wyre in Lancashire, UK, she designs one-of-a-kind pieces inspired by the surrounding woodland. Painting with colour and pattern is her lifelong passion, and her bespoke home designs reflect a deep connection to nature, detail, and the changing seasons.

Margarita Voitovic

@margarita_mag_handmade

Margarita Voitovic, based in Ikšķile, Latvia, has worked with furniture for over fifteen years. Founder of shops, a paint studio, a restoration workshop, and MAG Handmade school, she is inspired by Annie Sloan’s Chalk Paint techniques. She now combines traditional and historical methods – gilding, patination, multi-layered painting – often depicting flora, birds, and peacocks beneath her signature golden skies.