Friday, 22 July 2011

birds of a feather

photos from the beautiful collier campbell exhibition at the national theater.
amazingly vibrate with painterly touches every where, i had the real feeling of snooping around a studio. getting up close to designs so familiar was very special.




Thursday, 21 July 2011

Thursday, 16 June 2011

Tuesday, 14 June 2011

Monday, 6 June 2011

blue blue, electric blue




the colour of my weekend, a long weekend.

Tuesday, 17 May 2011

Wednesday, 11 May 2011

the problems with a stripe


you would never believe how tricky it is to print a stripe, particularly a four colour design like this one. fabric moves, stretches and shrinks. pattern cutters need their stripes all facing the same direction and preferably parallel. to print enough fabric to make this sample took a day, every thing is in the prep-work. and it looks so simple...