Week Four

Zoe Lower

Initially my development started by layering and mirroring my ink drawings inspired by Zoe Lower to pull all my mark making and drawing together in a hope to create abstract print designs.

Digital Experiments Inspired by Zoe Lower

What I found most intriguing about Zoe’s work was the blurred almost watery effect they create and how relevant it is to the affects I am trying to create within my work at the moment. Although they are fashion prints and full colour the proportions she has used I think also makes them well suited to an interior fabric context and personally can see them as contemporary bedding/soft accessory prints.

Kaleidoscope Collage

However, unlike Zoe's work the designs I created I found to be too plain and boring or at the other extreme, far too bold and complex to visualise in a homely interior context, especially my Kaleidoscope experiments where i added in some elements of my photographs. My designs were everywhere and I felt I needed much more focus to pull them together for them to be able to work a collection at a later date.

I took a step back and thought about researching into the decline in coral reefs a narrative that had first intrigued me when I began watching documentaries on coral reefs over the summer. One of the major problems I found was the bleaching of coral reefs due to global warming and pollution etc. I thought about the patterns and textures I’ve spent the last couple of weeks drawing from and using considering a more sophisticated colour palette using the creams and whites demonstrating the bleaching narrative, it would tone them down and enable them to be more suited to a contemporary interior context.

Coral Reef Bleaching

After tutorial and some trend research into colours resourcing from websites ‘trendbible’, ‘allaboutinteriors’ and ‘laurabielecki’s’ blog I am now considering how I can pull the two together, the very bright vivid colours the reefs once contrasting with the frosty white due to the destruction. At the moment I’m thinking this could be an exciting abstract way to tell the narrative focusing on the colour transition whilst allowing me to use the bright inky colours in a more selective / controlled way to suit my context. 

Samantha Robinson

At the moment my initial idea in mind is something similar to that of Samantha Robinsons porcelain… I love the simplicity of vessels but more relevantly the use of bold colour on each piece. The white ground is a favourite of mine and the way she applies complete pattern in just one tone is a really nice idea, it allows each item to be bold yet elegant, they all work well together as a collection yet would be well suited to an interior as the consumer has the option to buy just one or multiple but selective colour way’s to match their home.