Children Chris
Tom
Sam Website www.johamilton.co.uk | Name Jo Hamilton Role Interior designer | |
Relatives Brian Clarke (father)
Anne Clarke (mother)
Lisa Pearce (sister)
Vanessa Bennett (sister) | ||
Jo Hamilton (born Eton, Berkshire) is a leading British interior designer, based in London, known for her expertise in colour. She is the founder and creative director of Jo Hamilton Interiors, taking on residential and commercial work in the UK and abroad.
Hamilton is a show ambassador and key speaker for House, in Dublin's RDS. Hamilton was also the long-term resident interior designer at Grand Designs Live in both London and Birmingham as well as a key speaker and one of three "show ambassadors" along with Kevin McCloud and Charlie Luxton, and formerly George Clarke (architect).
Further keynote public speaking appointments have included Index Dubai, Top Drawer and the International Property Awards, for which she is also a judge. Hamilton became a What House? Awards judge in 2016, with What House? editorial director Rupert Bates stating: “We are delighted to have Jo on board. She is hugely talented and regarded and joins an outstanding panel of judges.”
Hamilton has appeared on Sky Living series Who'd Be a Billionaire?, BBC's What To Do With The House (When The Kids Leave) and ITV's 60-Minute Makeover, among others.
Hamilton regularly features in interviews about interior design trends and issues by media outlets that have included The Independent, the Daily Telegraph, Irish Independent, Metro, BBC, International Property & Travel, Rightmove, and UAE fashion magazine Elite Monde, among others.
Hamilton has worked on interior design-related PR activities with a number of respected companies, including Virgin Money UK and First Time Buyer Online. In 2014, she was commissioned by homewares chain HomeSense to open a series of new stores across England, including Cheltenham, Solihull and Salisbury. Hamilton has also been a brand ambassador for Bosch Power Tools - also known as Robert Bosch GmbH - and Dulux.
She runs regular interior design courses at five-star London venues that have included Charlotte Street Hotel and The Sanderson Hotel.
From a young age Hamilton believed she would become an artist, with her "first love" being fashion design. She became an interior designer in 1995 with a brief professional background in graphic design before she had three children. In a 2017 interview with What House? Hamilton listed late Irish interior designer David Collins as a source of inspiration, stating: "The elegance and serenity he was able to achieve is very much something that I also aim for in my designs".
Her father, Brian Clarke, writes a monthly column for The Times, on fly-fishing and the environment.
Hamilton's agent is Peter MacFarlane, of London-based MacFarlane Chard Associates.