About
When I was at Art College – foundation at Maidstone and then a degree at Norwich School of Art – I explored screen printing then and fell in love with the process as a way to tell stories. What excited me most was the traditional techniques of hand printing on fabric, the textures you can create and the happy accidents that come along the way. I returned to screen printing after a career in graphic design and began creating limited edition designs.
To me the technique and process is really important – almost as important as the design itself. I’m not so interested in mass production or losing the direct connection with what I make. I love that every one of my designs vary from one to another as I use only a few permanent screens, I still prefer the direct connection I get when cutting paper stencils by hand, placing motifs and making design decisions, on a day to day and minute to minute basis.
Traditional, hand printing techniques connects my work with a long history of UK crafts people. I use only environmentally friendly materials – the inks I use are soil association approved, the paper I use for stencils is a recycled stock and the materials are UK sourced to reduce the carbon footprint. I make the lampshades in house and all other pieces are sewn professionally in London and Surrey.
My approach is to first find an interesting story to tell, I believe that design should tell stories and it’s this that makes design work. My Ada design is inspired by Ada Lovelace, Troubadour is inspired by the iconic coffee shop in west London I used to go to when I worked in a design studio in Fulham. Bawa is inspired by Geoffrey Bawa, a Sri Lankan tropical modernist architect who worked in Sri Lanka mid twentieth century.
I work from my studio in my garden, nestled under the trees along the North Downs in Surrey.
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