About artist and founder, Katy McIntyre Brown
I’m Katy McIntyre Brown — a British artist, designer, and nature-lover, creating hand-painted floral patterns for modern, sustainable homes.
After years of working as a painter and exhibiting in galleries across Kenya and the UK, I launched Katy Botanicals to bring my artwork out of frames and into everyday spaces — from behind glass onto your table, into your homes and living spaces.
Katy Botanicals is about more than decoration — it’s about reconnecting with nature, honouring craftsmanship, and adding quiet beauty to the things we touch every day.
“I wanted to create pieces that feel like heirlooms — but made for now.”
Patterns and prints designed for natural furnishing fabrics and wallpapers.
Katy McIntyre Brown has been painting the natural world around her for over twenty years.
With a Masters Degree in Textile Design, Katy combines her love of painting and plants with her love of fabrics to offer ecological and natural textiles and wall designs. Katy created the floral backdrop for the award winning Horatio's Garden stand at RHS Chelsea this year and has also created designs for hospital walls at Southampton General and the Royal United Hospital, Bath.
Katy is also one of the art therapists working with Horatio's Garden patients. Her journey from psychologist to artist and textile designer weaves through the Somerset countryside, the Kenyan bush and the Test Valley in Hampshire. Katy paints in oils and acrylics on parchment and uses her knowledge of how mental health is affected by art and nature to create paintings and fabrics that bring a feeling of serenity.
Katy paints from life wherever possible as she feels that the final painting conveys the character, structure and stature of the plant so wonderfully, but that this approach also offers its challenges because flowers insist on blooming as they are painted. She often finds herself painting into the night to finish botanical studies before her flowers change beyond recognition.
Katy’s support for ethical and charitable causes
Katy’s passion for nature extends beyond her own designs. As a longtime supporter of Horatio’s Garden, a charity dedicated to creating beautiful gardens for spinal unit patients, she’s not only contributed to the products found in their shop but also hosts regular workshops in their Salisbury Hospital garden oasis.
Katy also supports Safe Lives charity to end domestic abuse, designing her Cherry Blossom linen to raise funds for this impressive charity that works with organisations across the UK to transform the response to domestic abuse, at a local, national and societal level.
Katy’s work has been featured in the Horatio’s Garden RHS Chelsea Flower Show garden, and with Hampshire Life, Solent TV and Gardener’s World and her fabrics have found homes as far afield as New Zealand, New York and Africa.
