Fifties Femininity (The Stitched Surface) exhibiton

My work was selected to be exhibited at the Brampton museum & art gallery in January 2012. These are just a few pictures of my work in the exhibition along with my inspiration.

Lost In Lace

Last week i decided to take a trip to Birmingham Art gallery to see the Lost In Lace exhibition, revealing the stories behind lace showing exhibitor's inspiration and pieces.

Emma Bridgewater Work Placement

In my second year i was lucky enough to win a competition based placement with Emma Bridgewater , a ceramic company that produces handmade ceramic ware. We had to opportunity to design and create a collection of ceramic pieces that related to the Stoke-on-Trent using the same hand printed sponge technique that they use.

I based my design on tiles i found while looking around Stoke-on-Trent experimenting with different colour ways and composition.

Churchill China Work Placement Project

Last summer i spent two weeks at Churchill China in Stoke-On-Trent working with the design team on my own project. Churchill in a well known ceramic company producing hospitality/ home ware ceramic products around the country.  I decided to focus my project on younger children looking at tea party treats...

playing around with layouts on photoshop.....

The breakfast set collection....

Final ceramic pieces...

A slice of Colour :)

I spotted a delicious slice of cake in a bakery in Manchester just love it! All the fun you can have playing around with the colours and patterns of cake!

Slices of inspirational cake from other blogs and web pages....

Tea party treats....

A little slice of the humming Bird Bakery......

Delicious

Pastel passion

While in Manchester Selfridges a new display caught my eye, love the shurbet shades....

I picked up the new Feb issue of Vogue, which on the front cover models a 1950's housewife, inside there was full of inspirational colours and trends for 2012 my favorite was the 1950's retro hollywood dreaming with their endless blue skies gave the mouthwatering pastel palette of pistashio ice cream, rasberry sorbet and lemon sherbet mixed with a dolly mixture of shades.

Chinese whispers

This is a sketchbook of a design journey led from one idea to the next, this gave me some ideas for my personal projects. Full of colour, designers, inspiration, trends and some of my own drawings and design development.