THIS IS ME !
Bright, bold, and imaginative are all words used to describe me and my design style. 22 years ago I found my passion, studying fashion and textile design at University in Liverpool. I loved everything, surface pattern, fabric manipulation, embroidery, and knit, if you could do it with fabric I did it!
I have designed in-house at many design studios, then 12 years ago found my home in homewares in Sydney designing for Australian homewares brand KAS, there I designed for many Australian and international brands including, Freedom, John Lewis, TK Maxx, Spotlight, Briscoes, Target AU, Bed Bath and Beyond to name a few, it was a dream job.
But I was stuck in a rut, both design-wise and style-wise. (I was wearing only black and chambray) It had happened as it does to many women I had lost ME!
So I left design, I tried poetry!…(very trendy for a 40-something Mum who is having a mid-mum crisis), I tried garden design… turns out I like drawing flowers not growing them. For two years I didn't design and I wasn’t very happy….Then I started painting and I realised I loved it! It was still my passion and I decided to start This, … To explore my own style, to share my years of experience with new designers and to shout THIS IS ME!
What’s happened so far…
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12/2023
Pattern Circus Launched with design partner Kerrie Cauvin
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11/2023
Mentoring on the Cass Deller Design SDP Course.
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6/2023
Mentoring with Kerrie at the Connecting Sydney Surface Designers
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3/2023
Insider chat pannel for patternfield with Bron Alexander and Nerida Hansen.