The Makerie

Whilst at the open studios I got to go and look around all of the other designers in the building, one studio that really caught my eye was Joyanne Horscroft's. Joyanne works under the name The Makerie for her fabulous creations and she was in the middle of creating a second beautiful paper peacock for a shop window.

 Joy creates beautiful pieces all out of paper, I am personally very into birds at the moment and I fell in love with all of them but this gorgeous bunny really stood out for me!

Open studio's at SE1 Studios Bow Arts

This weekend we had an opening studios at the SE1 studios, it was a great chance for over 50 designers and artists to show their work and work areas to the public. The event was well attended with many people coming through the doors all weekend. 

For those who didn't get to visit you can see our new look, larger studio in the photos. There are now four of us in the studio, myself, Francie a freelance print designer for fashion as well as two knit designers for fashion Frankie and Taz.

Good Homes Features

Thank you to Good home for featuring my products in both June and July's magazine. I LOVE how they have styled the piece and think the linear gold cushion looks fab next to the geometric prints!

New product! Ruffle tryptic

To scale image of commission proposal

I really enjoyed making this ruffle piece, I had a chat with Alastiar and Fiona who were looking for something different in their bedroom, they were first attracted to the large wool hearts but decided it wasn't quite right for them. The brief I was given was to keep the richness of the red and look to draw inspiration from Rothco. I did some drawings to scale know the size of their space before creating the finish items. We eventually settled on this three-toned red tryptic piece

Space before installation

Installation once fitting in the bedroom

close up of the tryptic 

Flower installation

This week I installed an eleven flowers in an installation in a private home in south London. The installation went in very smoothly and I am very pleased with the results. 

I had a wonderful email from Alastair and Fiona who commisioned the flowers along with another piece in their bedroom.

"Just wanted to say how much we both love the installations - they are fabulous. With the sun setting onto the wall the flowers look magical and bring a smile to my face every time I see them. They have transformed the space.  The tryptich in the bedroom is utterly amazing; stylish, bold, tactile yet warm - it has made the room. Thank you so much again, I hope you are as pleased as we are!"

I love seeing the difference between in the before and after photos, I will soon have a short video documenting the installation going in!

If you are interested in an installation or something to transform your own space let me know!

Hallway before the flower installation

Hallway after installation

Top Part of the installation

Flower installation looking up the wall

top of the wall before

top of the wall afterwards

L'Atelier exhibition

I had a fabulous time at the opening of the Design Factory exhibition in Paris. 

I was honored to be selected as one of the thirteen top designer/makers from the East Midlands which headed over to Paris this summer to take part in ‘Le Design à l’heure anglaise’, Design Factory’s first international gallery show. The exhibition runs from 10th June to 28th July  at l’Atelier, a prestigious gallery located at Viaduc des Arts, close to the Bastille area of central Paris.

It was wonderful to see the familiar faces of knit designer Debbie Bryan and Design Factories Hayley Banks and Claire Edwards as well as finally meeting some of my favourite designers such as Stuart Akroyd and Phiona Richards. I also discovered new designers such as Gill Wilson who's fabulous paper sculptures are fantastic.

L'Atelier Gallery Paris

Linear Fold Cushion in the gallery window

The lovely ladies from Design Factory and The Hub who made the whole exhibition possible

Me next to my large Teal Pompom flower.

Beautiful glass pieces by Stuart

Ruffle cushion and Clare Gage ceramics

 Design Factory is the East Midlands’ leading creative development agency and exists to support and champion the thriving craft and design sector in the region. The invitation to exhibit at l’Atelier is the result of an ongoing partnership with Ateliers d’Art de France, the federation of craft professionals who co-own the Maison&Objet trade fair and four Paris galleries, including l’Atelier. As part of a developing exchange programme, Design Factory will invite a group of French designer/makers to exhibit in the UK in 2013, at The National Centre for Craft & Design.

Lorna Syson Textiles soon to be exhibiting in Paris

I LOVE living in London

My boyfriend has just moved down to London and we are finally getting to know the city together. We went for a walk from my studio close to London Bridge to the Southbank centre and these photos really captured the mood of the evening.

Tate Modern

Bankside

Sunset Bridge

St Pauls

Many goings on.....

I can not believe how long it has been since I last posted on my blog! There has been so much that has gone on I thought I would condense them into one larger post!

Firstly we had our sale with My Deco which went well, look out for the video feature coming soon on their site. We also had our own competition running for the lovely people that retweeted and shared on facebook about the offer. We are please to announce the winner as Ana Aguilar-Corney from Aguilar Interiors was the winner of our limited edition Kate Linear fold cushion.

I also popped over to Dulage design week to the open house of Cavaliero and Finn, It was a wonderful event and they managed to select some of my favourite designers such as Shan Annabelle Valla and they also introduced me to some of my new favourite such as Custhom and Ali Miller

The next event was at Craft Central, which I am a member of. I saw some fab designers there including Laura Felicity and London Kills me, I then went and had a day playing with my new digital SLR camera. I must admit, the mojority of the day was sitting in one place taking the same photograph and seeing what happened to it, but I am proud of some of my new images.

I also popped into Ali Miller one day showcase of work, I LOVE her frog and butterfly cup and saucers!

Wall of up-cycled vintage plates

My most favourite piece from Ali Millers whole collection

Ali Miller wall paper and ceramics

Earlier this week I went to the RCA graduation show, which was a fabulous experience. I have some definitely favourites by mainly loved the atmosphere of the show. I'm an interiors girl at heart but thoroughly enjoyed it all the same.

Vital Feature

Thank you to German Vital magazine for featuring me.