It’s always exciting to work to a brief and to have a project. I have spent the past few weeks researching my topic. While I have usually had a natural leaning to painting and drawing florals I was asked to design a range featuring chickens. They are such a delight to watch and fortunately my brother has hens. So after numerous, photos and sketches here is my collection which are available on various products through Redbubble.
I am so fortunate to have the opportunity travel. My favourite place is textile heaven – India. Apart from the most extraordinary range of textiles in the world, everything a textile designer could possibly desire is there – India is a visual feast.
The colours are mesmerising and full of joy, texture and pattern abound – everything from the architecture to fragments of debris scattered on the street or the remains of posters layers on the walls bordering major roadways, beautifully painted trucks and finely painted henna to celebrate a wedding , huge bundles of flowers at the flower markets ready to be strung together and taken to the temple. I find it so inspiring. The images below were taken in Chennai, Kolkata and Jaipur.
Orange, fuchsia, turquoise, purple joy ! Take me there………………
Have a look at my Rebubble portfolio- you can shop here too. Great thing is, this is a sustainable way of producing textile and other products. Designs are only printed to order, so no speculation production. Use it and keep it forever or until it is totally worn out.
A range of coordinate designs using two main design motif – floral and a spot. Simply by changing scale, repeat structure, layout of motifs and colour it is possible to create endless options.
Julia Raath 