So, at a time when stress levels are high and you start doubting yourself and your designs, you log into facebook and find this in your inbox waiting for you...

It truly has put a smile on my face and motivated me, thankyou x

summerbelle - 6 weeks left

I must admit, i think i may be the worst blogger in the history of bloggers. Time has just crept away with itself and left me blog- less and with only 6 weeks of my student life left.

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On a lighter note, I am well underway with my final major. Taking inspiration from all things british and beautiful, i have made some divine wallpaper and fabric prints ready to be stitched into, heres some samples:

Leaf wallpaper print, bringing the outdoors in.

Floral fabric design.

Mr Heron wallpaper design, he's a charmer.

So there we have it....

Final major - Summerbelle

So, after the excitement of selling at Indigo I have started to do some initial sketches for my final major project, which i have titled 'Summerbelle' meaning summer beauty.


I want to reflect my own admiration for a good old british summer holiday, influenced from growing up by the countryside and the faint scent of summer flora in the air.

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Influenced by British Flora

Still greatly influenced by Victorian Trinkets

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Summerbelle

Pencil sketches and dried flowers

There will be more to come in the upcoming weeks! 

Indigo

I was lucky enough to sell two of my Lovely Day prints to an Italian Company at a recent trade show, Indigo. My first pieces of work to have sold there so I am very happy!

My prints for Indigo from the Lovely Day Collection.

The Lovely Day Collection

The Lovely Day Collection was influenced by the areas where I have grown up, surrounded by the beautiful British Countryside. I wanted to create wallpaper lengths and interior furnishings that reflected not only my passion for the British Countryside but also the introduction of gardens within the Industrial Revolution in Victorian Britain. 

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Influenced by designers such as Walter Crane and William Morris

Artichoke 1895, Walter Crane

Pimpernel Wallpaper 1876, William Morris

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One of my initial designs for the Lovely Day Collection

"The Violet and the Ranger"

Sketch with ink and gouache

Two of my final designs for The Lovely Day Collection

Individual paintings combined together and digitally composed

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22nd Feb 2012

This blog has been set up to allow me to record my final year doing my degree in Surface Design at Leeds College of Art. 

It will include work from artists/ designers that influence my own designs as well as posting images of my own work.