Influences Created Through Research

Drawing developed from researching old interiors magazines.

This old Indian Palace interior has influenced me because of its ancient peeling decor which adds a sense of nastaligic and traditional meaning to antiquity imagery.
This ancient Indian interiors has an opulent feel, however faded and worn it still has a feeling of nostalgic references.


The images taken using my camera equipment have influences how my  concepts for fabric designs have been generated. Colouration of the pebble collection has been select as I have previously discussed via colour therapy(theory via research) and also experience of colour value inside of previous and current working practice . Other areas influenced within the pebble project are numerous , I have however selected a number of links which are influential as discussed reflections creating through light and water have inspired me to look a pattern repeat structure, using the negative and positive of images created.Repeat pebble design.

Secondary influences within my home artifacts and images which I will discuss as and when needed throughout this blog will explain in more detail directions taken within different projects. I also have an archive of Interiors Magazines which I love to flick through to see what has been inspirational over the last couple of decades.
What I can say about my personal design practice? and how I create will also be discussed in greater detail. There is always a plan a mind map an initial direction mood boards and sketch books including primary and secondary research connected to contemporary and historical reasoning and artifacts.

While researching for my pebble project I spent time contemplating on the photograph of a  picture I bought from a junk shops soon after I moved to the countryside, the reasoning was the colouration matched the carpet without the house which is a biscuity melange effect. The other reason is that I liked the modernity of it and the use of design effects of changing the images from a negative to a positive and back again. Windowing the image in different ways and using an organic shape. Creating a repeat pattern from simple shapes.

Vintage wall hanging.

Reflections on the lake Kirklington Manor

 I gain a lot of inspiration from the landscape and I considering taking colours from the landscape in the form of ecology based inks and dyes which I have done previously with wool. I will be researching printed ink making within in ecology based production. Hand made without the necessary of buying plastic packaging to save the planet from climate change which is effecting habitats around the world.