A moment to update..

So I have finally got a spare few moments to update my page. I have been spending most my time in London where I have had the opportunity to undertake work placements and work as an assistant at a design company Hamilton Weston Wallpapers. These experiences have been really inspiring.

Before I start updating my new work here are a few snap shots of my designs that were shown at my Degree Show. All designs show my hand drawn quality developed through various print techniques.




"Super florals, Elegant designs"

"Professional and Beautiful"

The Makery & Photography

My summer display for The Makery window display - July 2011.



I was their intern for just over a year where I completed several projects including window displays, helping organise the Selvedge Christmas Fair and sourcing stock for their new opening store: The Makery Emporium.

Check online at: www.themakeryonline.co.uk




This is my favourite picture i've taken so far this term.

Artefacts Exhibition

Previous work which was shown in both Stroud International Textile Festival and Walcot Chapel is being shown again at Bath Spa University from the 8th to the 12th of November with a collection of other students work.

The work includes a variety of materials and techniques from embroidery right through to weave and print.

Private View - 6.00 - 8.00 pm
Location - Sion Hill, Bath School of Art & Design Gallery,
Sion Hill, Lansdown, Bath, BA1 5SF

Stroud International Textile Festival 2010

Taking place in The Museum in the Park, Stroud

Address: Museum in the Park, Stratford Park, Stratford Road, Stroud, Gloucestershire, GL5 4AF]



'A Collection Of Memories'

I have always been passionate about keeping my work personal, allowing myself to follow a dream. My inspiration came from studying old family photo albums revealing close relatives in a series of black and white photographs. These wonderful photographs, which were mainly taken by grandpa, captured fascinating places involving strong detail, which really caught my eye and I immediately wanted to find out more.

After asking family members, I began to learn much more about my family history, which automatically created a story line. After visiting the Museum In The Park I was inspired by the floral china, fans and the old letters displayed in the glass cabinet. I then started to print a series of old family letters, and while doing so I felt the work began to focus on a theme of absence, and the physical sense in that I, as a designer, have began to leave traces of print on my work.

The text identified family members, the place and the date it was taken. As these letters reveal a special moment that can be captured and can be kept forever, I wanted to create my designs in the same way by creating vintage fabric coat-hangers, allowing my work to develop and tell tales of their own.

Little Digital Prints

This is a photograph of some of my designs that I have been working with in Photoshop. I am working towards a series of fabric designs.

A collection of Memories

I have based both my Art and Textiles on the same title 'A Collection of Memories'. My art has taken a different approach and direction looking at the way art can be erased and still viewed in the same way.


January 1965

As Picasso says “every painting is a sum of destructions the artist builds and demolishes in the same instant”.



Erasure is simple not a matter of making things disappear, you are always left with some form of traces which have been left and scattered. It could simply be a mark on a piece of paper being erased by the end of a pencil rubber leaving bruising to the surface, being slightly removed reveals a sense of remembrance and memory. Whether it has been erased, crossed out or scribbled, the mistake has a habit of appearing in the background leaving a ghostlike outline behind the new mark.









While being home over christmas I came across an old suitcase which was owned by my grandpa it was full of old written letters, postcards, old photographs of loved ones and beautiful lace. After looking at these treasures which I had found I began to work up collages of fabrics involving selected parts of printed letters and imagery which gave me fresh and personal pieces.






These designs are previous work which I based on my grandpa as he was such a huge part of my life, looking at his personal memories and journeys throughout his life.


"My memory working in India"


"She always takes great pride in what she looks like"

Photography
Project 2: Town or Country

My project was based on my journey from home to an exquisite village called Badger. On my journey I also stopped at my nan's concentrating on the lake and the beautiful views behind and also at a country house just down the road from Badger. This was a great experience to get really close to the magnificent landscape , natural life and the detailed architecture of the buildings.