AN INVITATION: STEP INSIDE THE WORLD OF SENSORY & SLOW

Sensory & Slow began, in a way, on the water, long before there was a brand name, a wallpaper collection, or a website. It started in my childhood on the South Coast of England, with salt on my skin and my Dad teaching me to read the water the way some people read a room. That instinct, for noticing texture, light, and rhythm, never really left me. It just found new materials to work in.

Who Is Sensory & Slow?

Sensory & Slow is a slow living design brand founded by me, Amanda Deadman, a British mixed media artist, designer, and photographer based in Oxfordshire. I trained as an artist, designer, and photographer, and for years I made original mixed media pieces: sculptural relief, paper, polymer clay, built up slowly, layer by layer. That slowness is the whole point. Sensory & Slow isn't a brand about doing more. It's about noticing more: the grain of a surface, the particular blue of the sea, the quiet architecture of coral, a fish gliding under a jetty.

Over time, those original artworks have found their way off the wall and into rooms and lives, as wallpaper, cushions, yoga mats and beautiful leather bags. Not because I wanted to make more things, but because I wanted the feeling behind the art, the calm, the texture, the sense of escape, to live somewhere you actually spend your days.

What Collections Does Sensory & Slow Offer?

As well as my original artwork collections - Quiet Coral, Beachcomber, Fluid Undercurrents, On Painted Wings, Petals and Posies, and Convergence - the current product collections are The Nautical Message Collection which carries the sailing and coastal memories that shaped me. The Motif Collection and Transformations are studies in pattern, repetition, and the quiet meditative pull of a single shape designed well. Homage to Hockney is a love letter to colour, light, and optimism, built in the spirit of an artist who taught so many of us to look twice at the ordinary, and The Art of Walls (Wallpapers) where some designs evolve directly from my sculptural relief artworks, translating the tactile language of coral, flowers and organic forms into beautifully detailed wallcoverings. Other designs are inspired by paintings, botanical studies, coastal memories or imagined landscapes.

Why slow, and why now

We live in a fast-moving world. Sensory & Slow is a small, deliberate counterweight to that: a place for pattern and texture that reward a second look, for rooms that feel like a held breath rather than a headline. If that's the kind of thing you'd like more of in your inbox, around your home, and in your daily life, you're in the right place.

Thank you for being here at the start of it.

Amanda Deadman
Founder, Sensory & Slow

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Sensory & Slow?

Sensory & Slow is a slow living design brand offering wallpaper, homeware, and original mixed media art, all inspired by nature, texture, and the coast.

Who is the artist behind Sensory & Slow?

Sensory & Slow was founded by Amanda Deadman, a British artist, designer, and photographer based in Oxfordshire, whose original mixed media artworks form the basis of every collection.

What collections does Sensory & Slow offer?

As well as Amanda's original artwork collections - Quiet Coral, Beachcomber, Fluid Undercurrents, On Painted Wings, Petals and Posies, and Convergence - the current product collections include the Motif Collection, the Nautical Message Collection, Transformations, The Art of Walls, and Homage to Hockney.

How do I get the 15% subscriber discount?

Subscribe with your email address above. The first 50 subscribers can use their code for 15% off the Motif Collection, the Nautical Message Collection, Transformations, and Homage to Hockney, redeemable once per person.

What does "slow living" mean in design?

Slow living design favours texture, pattern, and craftsmanship that reward a second look, over trends that date quickly, creating rooms that feel calm rather than busy.