I received delightful news this week that my wallpaper design has been featured in part of an article in this month's Living Etc. magazine! This is such exciting exposure for my work! It's very surreal that I used Living etc. throughout my degree as an inspiration and market research tool, and now to have my own work featured as part of a 'get the look' article is an absolute honour! My Crystal Trompe L'Oeil design is sold in a variety of colourways (shown in this article: Emerald Jungle) on Feathr for £89 / 10m roll. The wallpapers are thick and premium quality and would work beautifully as a feature wall!
Being a new graduate means I have plenty of time to invest in small projects My first endeavour was to re-decorate and style my bedroom. I had been long tired of the drab browns and vintage decor. I wanted to modernise my room with a more minimal, Scandinavian style which has been very inspiring to me. However waiting for furniture is taking an age! I cannot wait to get my Scandinavian bedroom finished! I loved teaching myself how to weave and my first attempt worked really well! I would love to make more in different colourways to sell (if I can part with them!). I also struggled to find bed linen that was cheap, in a style that I liked. Problems of a designer: Can't Find Bedding, Make It! I have also been doing a lot more experimentation with portraiture, experimenting will smaller scales such as A3 since I am used to working with large A2 scale, it is challenging to condense all of the detail into such a small medium. I have also started to experiment with full-colour portraiture using prismacolor pencils. This was a great challenge for me but I LOVE the results, usually I despise drawing hair as it is so tedious, however, using prismacolour, the hair is perhaps my favourite part! I would love to experiment with prismacolor portraits further, concentrating on eyes, skin tones and other facial features. I find it much harder to achieve a sense of realism with prismacolor, however, I LOVE how the hair turned out on this piece I drew of Miss Fame from RuPaul's Drag Race.
From the 24th - 27th June I had the honour of being able to exhibit my final collection in London at the Business Design Centre, Islington, alongside the most talented emerging artists. The talent and skill on show was overwhelming, and it was impossible to leave uninspired! So, although it's a few days late, I would just like to share my appreciation of ten designers who inspired me in particularly. The list is in no particular order and I originally planned to make a list of just five. I could've featured everybody it was hard to chose just ten! Well done everybody who exhibited! I D O N O T T A K E C R E D I T F O R A N Y P H O T O S O F A R T I S T W O R K P H O T O S A R E S O U R C E D F R O M A R T I S T I N S T A G R A M A N D A R T S T H R E A D A C C O U N T S M Y T O P T E N D E S I G N E R SEMMA MCDOWALL |