Dan Pearson's Morris Meadow

The Arts fund has successfully crowd funded Dan Pearson's 'Morris meadow' commissioned for the Arts and Craft House show. Dan has designed a William Morris-inspired garden within a wild-flower meadow.

I'm very excited to have been commissioned a  special edition series 'Chimera collection' decorated bone china bowls as one of the donators rewards. My designs will include a selection of meadow flowers from Dan's plant list and Morris flowers.

                                                                         The garden museum's in Lambeth recent addition to theirnew contemporary craft collection 'Contemplations in Burges park' 

  

Printing at Sonsoles studio

Now a member of the vibrant Sonsoles print studio in Peckham where I have been screen printing onto Morris's designs. The whole process of  reconfiguring and making 'Space' among the fully charged repetition of pattern is akin to weeding, pruning, dividing and landscaping. The garden elements I want to return Morris's plants to are the ground , what happens underneath and way above  in the sky. 

Stencilling panels on studio floor

Working so closely and physically with the wallpapers certainly increased both my appreciation of the complexity and beauty of William Morris's designs as well as knee and back pain!

Organic designs - plots of earth, seeds, couch grass

Print on Pomegranate and bird

Daylight panels on Daisy

For anyone who wants to understand the aesthetic of space this book is a must.