New collections for 2015!

           -New collection for 2015-

It's been a busy few months after graduating this summer but I am very excited to be designing again for a new interiors collection. I will be exploring with dramatic and bold mark making for very soft and neutral interiors trying to achieve an interesting contrast. Its been great getting back into sketchbook designs and exploring with new techniques and I'm very excited to produce a new collection with a different look and style. It's still early days but will be posting more pictures of samples and designs very soon! 

                           -I.P.D-

Crysalis Digital encounters competition!

Finally had the chance to go and see the digital encouters exhabition that my work is in. Had lovely feedback about this exhabition at New Designers and was really excited to see how my work was displayed. 

The lay out of the Exhibition was great and all the lovely work was set up beautifully. It was really nice to see how much effort has gone into it to make sure that every designers work was displayed in the best way possible. Overall the Exhibition looked wonderful and I am so happy I had the chance to be part of it! 

My work display

My work was also included in this lovely Digital encounters book that was handed out to the visitors. It included an image of the work and a small statement that was also translated into French.

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Dulux Timeless "Bowler Hat"

Absolutely in love with this gorgeous paint colour "Bowler Hat" from Dulux Timeless Classics collection! 

I used this particular colour for my visualisation images. The deep Grey tone created a lovely contrast and really helped my work stand out in the images. As my collection was based on Heritage and classic  traditional textiles, the bowler hat paint was perfect for achieving a sophisticated interior space and went really well with the theme of my work. 

This beautiful graphite grey was inspired by the classic gentlemen's bowler hat. Dulux Timeless Classic's range has been to designed to bring saphistication and elegance to your home. 

I love it! and think it was the perfect choice for my collection

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New Designers 2014

This weeks has been the begging of New Designers 2014. So far it's been a really good experience. Have seen some truly amazing work and has been very interesting to get the first insight into the textile industry. The feedback has been very helpful and look forward to what's to come after the show... 

It is still on till Saturday 28th of June so excited to see what else this experience could bring. 

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These are some images from the set up of our stand UCA FARNHAM T43. 

Business Cards

Created my first ever Business Cards!! Hopefully they will be handy! 

UCA Graduation Show 2014

Yesterday was the First Private show that I got to experience exhibiting my work at UCA Farnham James Hockey Gallery. It has been a long week preparing for the show but was great to see so many people attending yesterdays private show and enjoying Graduates work. 

Setting Up the show 

Private show 22nd of May 2014 James Hockey Gallery 

My work hanging up (Second on the left)

This year the show was set up a little bit different. As we had the main Gallery space to ourselves we was required to make the show flow as a whole instead of being presented as individual pieces. therefore the printers work was paired up with weave to present the BA (Hons) Textiles course at UCA Farnham. 

Overall it was a lovely show and was great to see so many people there. 

Now looking forward to New designers and setting up work all over again, this time the way we want it :) 

UCA FARNHAM GRADUATION SHOW

FRIDAY 23 MAY -
FRIDAY 6 JUNE 2014

Every May, June and July, UCA welcomes thousands of people to our Graduation Shows, held at each of our campuses and across London, featuring work from our graduating pre-degree and degree students.

These exhibitions are a great way to get a sense of the type and level of work created by our students, and give you the chance to spot the talent of the future. The shows include new work in art, design, architecture, media and communication.

Private view: 22 May, 5-9pm             

Public view:
23 May, 9.30am-4.30pm
24 May, 10am-2pm
25 - 26 May, closed
27 - 30 May, 9.30am-4.30pm
31 May, 10am-4pm
1 June, closed
2 - 6 June, 9.30am-4.30pm

COURSES FEATURED

Access to Higher Education Diploma in Art & Design
Diploma in Art & Design - Foundation Studies
BA (Hons) Advertising
BA (Hons) Animation
BA (Hons) Arts & Media
BA (Hons) Computer Games Arts
BA (Hons) Digital Film & Screen Arts
BA (Hons) Film Production
BA (Hons) Fine Art
BA (Hons) Glass, Ceramics, Jewellery, Metalwork
BA (Hons) Graphic Communication
FdA/BA (Hons) Hand Embroidery
BA (Hons) Interior Architecture & Design
BA (Hons) Journalism
BA (Hons) Leisure Journalism
BA (Hons) Motoring Journalism
BA (Hons) Photography
BA (Hons) Product Design
BA (Hons) Sports Journalism
BA (Hons) Textiles for Fashion & Interiors

Digital Encounters Exhibition @ Canterbury

I am very excited to be exhibiting my work at Digital Encounters Exhibition at Canterbury during this summer. The brief was particular interesting to me as I have used Digital Printing as part of my revival of Indian Textiles. 

My Work to be exhibited 

From 20-06-2014 Till 28-07-2014

The Digital Encounters exhibition hosted by the University for the Creative Arts will be the finale of the Moving Textiles exhibition series. Works can be made in response to the Digital Encounters Symposium which considered the transformative effect of digital design and production techniques on a range of textiles practices exploring the relationship between hand crafted and digital textile techniques. Along with work inspired by the symposium works may be created in response to the question 'How do you see the future of textiles and its relationship to digital media?' Work may be produced by established professionals or up-and-coming designers from across different visual arts, using a range of media or mediums. In addition examples of work made as part of the Crysalis - the revival of textiles project, will be exhibited to celebrate the juxtaposition of digital textiles design alongside hand crafted textiles and heritage.

Crysalis - the revival of textiles

Erased Classics Collection...

A little bit more about my Erased classics collection...

'' Exploring ancient craft of Indian Textiles with combined reinvention using spontaneous modern marks has helped me to achieve a modern home collection that captures the beauty and value of origins and culture'' 

I have designed this collection by exploring with Indian Textiles that I was lucky to collect from our VAD's Collection at Farnham. I came across a few original textile pieces that dated as far back as the 18th century. I was fascinated by the patterns and craftsmanship of Textiles back then...

After exploring with this particular piece of cloth I decided to change and manipulate it by introducing hand made marks to achieve a contrast between the old and the new.  I did alot of the mark making on paper and used Photoshop to see how these marks might help to 'erase' the origins and introduce it into a more modern and contemporary design.

I have been very ambitions about creating something contemporary and  modern but still keeping the original beauty of hand made cloth and traditional Indian Textiles . My aims have been to achieve a domestic textiles for Interiors. 

All the images that I have taken of my work showcase my fabric designs and some of them have been made into cushions to help with my final visualisation. 

I have also created a brochure book that includes all my images from my collection that I am  hoping to present at New designers 2014. 

End of Three year Uni Degree...

I have finally come to the end of my Three year Uni degree at UCA Farnham. I am pleased with the final collection I produced and wanted to share a few pictures from my Visualisation. 

I have decided to call my furnishing collection "Erased Classics" as throughout my final major project iv been focusing on ancient Indian textiles and recreating them with spontaneous and modern marks to created traditional yet exciting and contrasting designs. 

Final Hand in 

Inspirations- The beggining

During the summer I visited a few exhibitions one of them was called LDN Interiors, there I spotted a textile design company called Timorous Beasties. Their new Hotch Bloch fabric really caught my eye with the interesting dye methods. I really liked the idea of dying fabric using interesting techniques and layers and I will experiment with them on my own fabrics. 

Timorous Beasties- Rorschach collection September 2011

Ink Blots 

Introducing |ndian textiles 

Photoshop Designs

Final mojor project 2014