A business consultancy for those in the arts and creative industries.
SERVICES
It starts with your next idea, your talent and your grit. But what next? It is my belief that as a creative entrepreneur, founder or leader, having clarity of vision and of purpose will lead to clarity of action.
I work with creative entrepreneurs to carve out creative and commercial strategies across all areas of the business, brand or enterprise. Working on a project basis, I take a bespoke approach to each client. A self proclaimed optimist, every interaction with me offers ideas, energy and insight.
SELECTED CLIENTS
Curation
Design
Fashion & Jewellery
Fine Art
Fine Craft
Interiors & Gardens
Nancy Nicholson
Palefire
Plum & Ashby
Rachel Entwistle
Scribble & Daub
Sophie Breitmeyer
Studio Faeger
Studio George
Studio Peake
Tabi Jackson Gee
Twig Hutchinson
Ben Prescott Design
Camilla Wordie
Cloth Collective
Colette Woods
East London Cloth
Emilie Pugh
Emily Ponsonby
Foster & Gane
Hum London
If Only If
Kitten Grayson
Jess Wheeler
Life Of Ease
Lottie Delamain
UP WITH THE LARK AND
Mel Calver
Intentional Play
Mel Calver has a creative life that is a delightfully unexpected tapestry. She is the founder and creative director of Melanie Giles - a a collection of three hair salons across Somerset. All fizz with energy, buzz with hairdryers and yet which offer a sanctuary of great coffee and conversation. Alongside this she runs ReRooting, a cutting and kitchen garden where she plays and happens to supply herbs and flowers to Landrace Bakery, and herbs to Margaux Henderson’s Three Horse Shoes.
Mel’s drive and ambition is quiet. Perhaps even enigmatic. And yet its outcome is abundantly clear. Every conversation with her is peppered with adventurous ideas and plans. It’s infectious. Her sense of play is independent and built on an intuition I admire immensely. I can assure you that Mel’s story will get you thinking about your own talents, ideas and sense of play, who you surround yourself with and the promise of what might be possible. We are going to talk about plants and hair and baking, the delight in working in contrasting disciplines and how to be intentional about play in the midst of it all.
ABOUT
Up With The Lark
Up With The Lark was launched in 2015 by Calandre Orton. It is a business consultancy for those in the arts and creative industries. Up With The Lark clients want to be encouraged and challenged to start, refine, grow or elevate their creative businesses or careers. Calandre works with founders, entrepreneurs and brands to propel creative talent forwards, develop profitable business models and celebrate the successful marriage of creativity and commerce.
It is Calandre’s belief that the key to running a successful creative business is clarity. Whether in her capacity as a consultant focused on strategy or a mentor working on mindset, Calandre’s goal is always clarity of vision, purpose and action.
Calandre has always worked where the creative meets the commercial - as an art and media lawyer, a studio manager, a commercial director and a business consultant. And so, as a consultant, Calandre provides invested but objective observations, pithy insights and expert advice. A self proclaimed optimist, every interaction with Calandre offers ideas, energy and insight. Up With The Lark is not about a ‘one size fits all’ approach. Instead the focus is on each client’s specific talents and industry, aspirations and version of success.
