Design
Before I took up painting and drawing full time I used to be a Textile Designer-designing printed textiles, firstly for the fashion trade (Nathaniel Williams, a design studio just off Oxford St in London) and later as a freelance designer for furnishing and wallpaper (Barry Daniels Studio in Islington). Barry mostly sold designs in the U S and Canada, based in a studio in New York. The designs left over from these years (between 1974 and 2010) hae been languishing in one of the plan chests in the studio but recently surfaced on my YouTube video where they attracted a little bit of attention. I was encouraged to select a few and frame them up as artworks rather than designs- some of them are a little ragged and scribbled on -but that seems to be part of their charm. We have framed some of them and photographed a few more with a view to selling them individually, either as originals or as prints and cards. They have been exhibited at Bath St Centre in Saltburn and will eventually end up back in my studio. Here are a few of them .
These designs were mostly for furnishing fabrics and wallpaper, sometimes even sold for wrapping paper, , napkins, paper plates and notelets. They were hand painted on cartridge paper, using gouache paint ( a more opaque version of water colour paint). Occasionally I would paint onto fabric but this was more time consuming as it often took more than one coat of paint.
These last few are much smaller fabric designs for the fashion trade-from my early days in London
