My name is Shaun Lovering, and I’m the founder and proprietor of Lovering Interiors.
I was brought up and educated in the beautiful Wye Valley and Gloucestershire borders.
It wasn’t until I decided to take up a career in decoration and design, did I realise what a unique advantage this gave me.
My mother is a fabulous gardener, and my early years were filled with great gardens and lots of vivid summer colours, rusty autumn and cool winter tones.
On the other side of our fence, we were surrounded by superb landscapes, with incredible and constantly changing colours.
This font of colours gave me my love of nature, colour, texture and surfaces. The first stepping stone of a very successful career in Fine Decoration.
I constantly further my knowledge and working experience within interior decoration and I’ve had the privilege to have worked with some fantastic people in the UK, France, Italy and Australia who have generously shared their unique skill base and ethos with me.
I have 24 year’s experience embellishing sublime buildings in fabulous places and as the saying goes ”you can’t fake experience, you have to earn it!“
I have worked for many clients, designers and antique dealers over the years, including Robert Kime, whom I’ve worked exclusively for this past 4 years.
My role as specialist painter as given me the opportunity to use all of my skills and experience with everyone at Robert Kime and together as a team, we’ve been able to do some fantastic projects, including “The Gunton Arms”. I am extremely grateful to have been involved.
At Lovering Interiors we aim to provide a professional, discreet, reliable and helpful service.
The projects on this site are a suggestion of the possibilities available.
Please take a look at the services page for our services offered.
And please use the contacts page if you would like us to assist you in anyway.
In the meantime, good luck with your decorative endeavors.
A childhood part-time job – in the kitchen of a highly-regarded local French restaurant. And as I look back, this was my foundation course to creativity – it opened my world to the discipline needed to make blends, recipes and secret potions.
I owe a lot to this time as it taught me how to mix unique sensations, which I essentially do each day with paints and mediums.
After school I did a stint in HM Armed forces, and then I returned to the real world.
I was highly motivated, disciplined, positive and thoughtful and these skills have helped me immensely throughout my life and career.
My new career started with a resettlement course in Decoration from the Services & I went to a trade school.
I managed to get some work experience with an Old Historical Master Painter that I meet on a courses I did.
I’d help him out on weekends for free in order to learn new decorative and historical techniques.
He gave me lots of homework & priceless "old school guidance" that you just don't find out there anymore!
It taught me so much, & set me on my decorative way. I am truly grateful to him.
I left those studies with the highest possible results and a Master Craftsman certificate. I was awarded a national prize from The Worshipful Company of Painters and Stainers.
I realised I was getting pretty good by then and so I’ve just kept on going, always aiming to learn something new and different.
I’ve studied Fine Art in Sydney, where I lived and worked for a big part of my middle life. This gave me so many great experiences, including working on many of Sydney’s early buildings. I’ve been fortunate to have had huge exposure to Australia’s dramatic and special landscapes and its bonza people.
Whilst living in Western Australia, I worked part-time in an antiques and restoration shop for free, just so I could learn the wood finishing skills that I employ at work today.