At New Designers in London

Honours Project

I have designed surface patterns for chairs, these i have refurbished myself by simply sanding down and repainting the wood.

I have experimented with different paints and surfaces for printing, the pink sample shown above is paper which i then stitched.

My final designs shown on my two chairs are screen printed and free machine embroidered.

I really enjoyed the process of refurbishment, I love the idea of taking something old and making it new. Its like creative recycling, these chairs i managed to salvage from an antiques sale, they werent in very good condition so when they didnt sell, they were going to be thrown in the tip!!

I will find my images of the chairs before hand and upload them so you can see the whole transformation.

ceramics elective

In my second year I took an independant elective in ceramics. I explored the idea of mixing textiles with clay. Instead of using a glaze on the surface, I used textiles to cover my pots.

This idea of interperting textiles into my ceramics work came from some ceramics work I did in my first year. Our class took a mixed crafts elective in which we had to design an item of jewellery......

The textiles are not seen here as they were inside the clay. I used lengths of wools and fabrics dipped in slip (liquid clay) and wrapped them around circles which I cut out of clay. When the circles are put into the kiln, the textiles fibres are burned away leaving the textures imprinted in the clay which was surrounding the wool and material. I then added a glaze before firing a second time. Finally I simply strung the circles together using string.

Work from my second year at uclan

This is a painting i did for a wall art design. My idea behind these were to create an outdoor wallpaper or some kind of decor for bus stops and train stations.

Another floral - acrylic paint and machine embroidery on canvas.

This was an ols piece of fabric i used to print with, before machine embroidering detail.

Section of another embroidery. The yellow thread makes the stitching clear on this one.



Another detail of an embroidered print.