Wimbledon Art Studios: Jaysen Lilley

These are my three favs from my visit to the studios, the first being Jaysen Lilley who creates bold, colourful screen prints with London themes.  I'm a sucker for bright colours so was immediately drawn to these, as well as his use of screen printing - I love thinking about all the layers which must have gone into each print to create the overall effect. 

Wimbledon Art Studios: Open Studios

Wimbledon art studios is one of the largest single site studio complexes in the UK, and this weekend saw one its twice yearly openings to the public. Luckily for me I live in walking distance of the studios, and with so many artists from so many disciplines in one place I would have been foolish to miss it. 

Having not been to an open studio's in a few years and never on my own (usually trotting along with a bunch of girls from uni) I was a tad unsure of what to expect! What I got was a lovely afternoon- looking into many artists own private worlds. I felt in owe of so many pieces and very inspired to create more myself. It was great to see such vastly different works all in the same place as well as being able to chat to the artists about their style and processes. 

Below are some of the pieces which caught my eye most...

Fiona Brown

Jane Wachman

Elena Garcia de la Fuente

Katherine Le Hardy

Redbubble

So the first step in my year of productivity was to create a Redbubble. I've known about Redbubble for some time now, for those of you who haven't stumbled across this site its an online market place which creates customized products from your designs.

I thought it was time to give Redbubble a try, uploading artworks is pretty straightforward, and it introduces you to a new world of designers which act has a great source of inspiration. 

With sites like this I always worry about my designs being stolen, but I'm hoping its just a good way of getting your work out there and its always nice to hear feedback about your style, good and bad. 

You can see of my designs here

Time fly's...

It's recently come flying at me that its almost a year since my final ever university hand in, and hitting me even harder is recognising that I'm not in the position I thought I might be in a year ago. Not that I even really knew what I wanted a year ago, I just knew I wanted a rest from the deadlines and stresses that come with third year, and its fair to say this last year has given me that. I think perhaps I underestimated just how short a year is, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. 

My upcoming first anniversary for leaving uni, has made me realise just how much I'm missing being creative. It's a lot harder being self-motivated to design than I thought. Not that I've been unmotivated, its just slipped, other things have taken over and here we are, one year on, with not quite the full ideas busting out sketchbooks I would have liked. So I think its time to get back in the creative game, I love drawing and I don't want to miss out on another year of it. 

So when I reach my second anniversary of leaving I want to look back on a more productive year, and that starts with my blog; I will post more, I will draw more, more patterns will be made, more exhibitions will be visited, sketchbooks will be filled and I'll finish knitting all the socks I started!! 

Rose Hill Designs

I'm currently interning for the lovely Rose Hill Designs, a newly established brand creating patterned artworks, notebooks, gift cards, dresses and bespoke commissions. 

Rose recently took part in her first trade fair, featuring has part of Spotted at Top Drawer, London, alongside 12 other hand picked design business's, chosen for their quality and originality. 

I was lucky enough to help Rose at Top Drawer, having only visited trade fairs before and never shown my own work at one, (with the exception of new designers) it was an eye opening experience. A year ago I was touring the trade fairs on the hunt for inspiration for my third year, and this year I find myself on the other side of the stall.

Some Rose Hill designs...

To find out more about Rose Hill Designs, you can visit her website

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Or facebook her for all up and coming designs,  Rose Hill Facebook

pretty snaps

I've been back for a few weeks now, the sadness of being back in cold rainy England is slightly wearing off and the time to blog again is upon me! Before I delve into what I've been up, here are some pretty snaps I took while away, hopefully some will inspire me and help me to remember what the sun looks like!!

New designers

So last week was new designers, where I got to show some of my work alongside lots of other wonderful graduates of 2013 at the Islington design centre. 

It was so exciting to be picked to do this and a lovely way to end my degree. Really great to get to see the work of so many uni students who do similar courses to myself, the work was all such high quality, it was a tad overwhelming, but nice to think these are the people I'll hopefully get to work alongside in the years to come. 

Below are some pictures of how I displayed my work, and LCC's space. 

Tiger print invited me along to one of their creative sessions, me and three other girls had an hour to create a circus themed photo, below is what we came up with.... (photo from tiger prints instagram, tigerprinters)