Claire Coles

I have recently discovered Claire Coles and her work is beautiful, it is pretty much exactly the style I want to develop with my work. If I could get any sort of feedback from her it would be fantastic. I love the simplicity of the design and how it still works so well and detailed across the wall even though the design space its self is quite empty. The beauty of this design I feel comes from the use of line and colour, the simple but detailed illustration with only the flowers filled with colour, creates a very feminine and delicate wallpaper. I am perhaps too far along in my current design process for this brief to take all of these points into consideration for my work, and some of these points would fit in with the Laura Ashley theme however this aside Claire Coles I feel has had a big impact on my work and inspiration.

This second design Claire Coles has printed onto a wallpaper giving it life transforming it into a piece of art and not just wallpaper. The design has a very vintage feel to it and the embroidered patterns add something completely different to the wallpaper making them individual from the regular wallpaper market. I think this is a really key point and something I should definitely consider in my future work as well as this brief where the range is 'speciality.' Something I find really interesting is how Claire has managed to arrange the pattern so it flows effortlessly across the wall, this is something I have struggled with in my design work especially as I have never worked to such a large scale before.