The begginning!

Right, well I haven't blogged in a year! After prowling the internet looking at other peoples blogs for inspiration, guidance and tips,  I have decided to get involved and start blogging myself.

So this past year I have been settling into my move to Australia and finding my feet in this amazing city. Now, my challenge of 2013/2014 is to get proactive and productive and begin setting up as a freelance designer / sole trader in the textile industry out here! The first steps on what I am hoping will be an exciting adventure! Watch this space! Nancy xx

Thankyou to the Pattern Obsever blog; http://patternobserver.com/ for a lovely write up! :)

AUGUST 24, 2012...5:22 PM

Designer Feature: Nancy Newton

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Hello there! We made it through another week and I want to thank you for all the positive emails that we have been receiving. My heart truly soars when I read about the resource posts helping you to get back on track or your successes after being featured in our designer posts. Blogging is not always easy and hearing from you, the Pattern Observer community, keeps me going on a daily basis!

Today’s featured designer is Nancy Newton, who graduated from Leeds College of Art with a First class BA (hons) in Printed Textiles and Surface Pattern Design. I have been seeing less and less romantic-inspired prints over the past year, so I was delighted when I reviewed Nancy’s work. Her graduate project ‘Garden Dreams’ is “concerned with the aesthetics in nature and how they can be represented in the decorative arts to act as visual escapes within an interior. Taking inspiration from Romanticism, the Aesthetic Movement and Chinoiserie wallpapers, the collection off wallpapers and furnishing fabrics intend to play on aesthetic pleasures. The designs exaggerate the beautiful, sublime and seductive elements in nature to create dream like visions of garden scenes, blurring the line between fantasy and reality within the home.” To check out more of Nancy’s work please visit her website. Have a fantastic weekend!!!!

Leeds College of Art degree show June 2012....

Opening Times

16th June 12pm- 6pm
18th-20th June 9am- 8pm
21st June 9am- 5pm

Blenheim Walk, LS2 9AQ
Vernon Street, LS2 8PH

This is a shot of my exhibition space ready for my degree show in a couple of weeks... :) 

Garden Dreams

My Final project for my BA (hons) in Printed Textiles and Surface Pattern Design,  is called 'Garden Dreams'.  Inspired by Romanticism, the aesthetic movement and traditional chinoiserie wallpapers, I have been busy over the past couple of months designing a collection of furnishing fabrics and wallpapers for the interiors market. The collection aims to capture and exaggerate some of the most beautiful elements in nature to create magical and dreamy designs. With only two weeks to go I have a lot to do in a little amount of time but its exciting to see it all start to come together! Below are some of the designs I've been developing into Wallpaper lengths for my degree show....

Some other designs from my collection....