Above is a painting on rice paper completed in a Chinese Caligraphy class i took at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Abive is a caligraphic painting I completed at the Rhode Island School of Design in the Chinese Brush Painting Class.
Above is a digital print on silk. The image was inspired by the BATTLES music video for the song "Ice Cream" which I found very viseral and fun due to it's yummy pastle palate. The imagery I chose to create the shapes is taken from geodes I photographed in the Natural History Museum in London. I then created drip paintings and spill paintings that I digitally manipulated and collaged into a Chinese-like landscape composition. I like the idea for both apparel and/or to use as a panel for interiors. I enjoy the romantic and off beat aesthetic of creating this contemporary version of Chinese Landscape painting.
These few drawings on paper are intricate and detailed drawings of bonsai trees done for an idea of an installation in which the bamboo supports for the trees would be wrapped in pink ribbon to highlight the manipulation of the trees. The images themselves have a surrealist quality I find inspiring for textile print design.
Above and bellow are whimsical material sketch's I was playing with as ideas for a feeling for a print design at the Royal College of Art Textiles Print Program. I made many of these little material sketces throughout the year that I sketched and photographed in different ways for inspiration for new shapes and textural combinations for textiles.
These sketches are examples of repeats for jaquard designs I did for Zandra Rhodes as her print design intern in London. She wanted me to maintain the hand drawn quality of her sketches in the repeats that would later be digtially recreated by jacquard.
Above is an obsessive line drawing done in metalic ink on colored paper. It is a floral idea for embroidery done in line hatching.
