New Members join Design-Nation's leading portfolio
Design-Nation, a leading portfolio for designer-makers based in the UK has chosen its new members for 2019. With weavers, furniture makers, ceramicists and textile designers amongst their selection, here are a few that caught our eye:
Anthony Dain
Oxfordshire based maker, Anthony Dain, crafts contemporary furniture using native and locally sourced timbers at his workshop within the Sylva Woodland Foundation.
How form, pattern and texture relate to one another and a fascination with the way the components of a whole fit together lie at the heart of Anthony’s practice where he takes inspiration from a diverse range of processes. In particular, traditional British furniture making, architectural joinery, the built environment and more recently elements of traditional Japanese joinery.
Piccolpasso Handmade Tiles (Caroline Egleston)
Hampshire based ceramic artist Caroline Egleston, Piccolpasso Handmade Tiles, creates handmade tiles for contemporary interior spaces. The component shapes, each individually made, fit together to create movement on the wall surface. Colour, texture and pattern play together.
Caroline’s brushwork tiles are painterly and spontaneous; reflecting not only the influence of maiolica decoration from her training at Faenza in Italy but also her enjoyment of watercolour and delicate layering effects. She explores textured repeat patterns to anchor the brushwork tiles and also makes glazes from natural oxides which bring surface interest and subtlety.
Laura Thomas
Bridgend based maker Laura Thomas, is an award-winning textile artist and designer specialising in producing striking textiles for contemporary spaces.
As an expert in woven textiles, Laura has always been thoroughly absorbed by its infinite scope for exploration and experimentation. Laura established her studio practice in South Wales in 2003, and has worked on an extremely diverse range of projects spanning public art, commercial textile design, curation, artist residencies and creating work for exhibition.
This breadth of practice and multi-faceted approach has made her somewhat unusual in the woven textiles sphere. Whether it be site-specific textile art laminated in glass or contract upholstery design, underpinning all of Laura’s work is an inherent practical curiosity to exploit weave principles, celebrate the beauty of yarns and create striking aesthetics for this ancient craft.
CJP Designs (Clare Pentlow)
Warwickshire based artist Clare Pentlow, CJP Designs, crafts intricate paper sculptures. Cutting, folding and layering simple sheets of paper, she creates stunning geometric designs and patterns, embracing the versatile qualities of strength and fragility in paper. The process of turning such an ordinary everyday material into something extraordinary fascinates Clare who combines precision paper-cutting with bold colours, creating a hypnotic sense of depth and movement which draws the viewer in.
| Banner Image: 'Trinity Weave' by Laura Thomas