Practitioners

The second part of my influence task, I have been starting to identify practitioners who are working in a very similar way to how I would like my own practice to go. To follow in the same footsteps as some of the designers I have found would be a dream come true.
The path that is interesting me the most, that I think I would like to go down, is Interior design, one designer that I found that particular stood out for me is a lady called Deryn Relph, she is a textile designer, with a love of colour, pattern and texture, who likes to think creatively about the use of textiles she designs and constructs. 

A quote from Deryn herself has really inspired me for my own practice, “Although I specialized in knitted textiles for Interior use during my BA(Hons) Textile Design at Winchester School of Art, I merge this with previous upholstery and furnishing skills to create unique and contemporary solutions to an idea." 

She basis her work on the Issues affecting the Environment, and Sustainable design underpin my design ethos, and consideration to ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle’ is made throughout my process, with use of colour and technical ability aiding the solutions, along with a range of products that help reuse any waste. This something I like the idea of myself, and that I do already in some cases, to use and recycle materials and emerge them into the work that I create, even though she still is based as a knitter, a lot of her work is weave too, which come under the same title as construct, this is very helpful for myself, as weaving is what I want to specialize in. 

 

This here is a range of her work, this batch of interior came under the title of 'Retro Rainbow' I really like her geometric use of shapes and choice of colour. Even though her work is mainly knitted based just her designs and colour theme are a great inspiration to the practice that I might possibly like to follow. 




Margo Selby is still up there in my favorite designer list too, I love her unique style of work so very much, her distinctive style is known by so many people, and this would be such a dream of mine if one day I could be like her. To combine both her work with Deryn Relph's quirkiness is going to be the aim that I try and reach out for during my time studying the Textile and Practice course.