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'Mercurial Tides' Print
'Mercurial Tides' Print
£10.00

A5 Print of original work from the ‘Mercurial Tides’ collection, 2025.

Each print is individually signed and packaged with backing.

'Mercurial Tides' Print 'Mercurial Tides' Print
'Mercurial Tides' Print
£10.00

A5 Print of original work from the ‘Mercurial Tides’ collection, 2025.

Each print is individually signed and packaged with backing.

'Mercurial Tides' Print 'Mercurial Tides' Print
'Mercurial Tides' Print
£10.00

A5 Print of original work from the ‘Mercurial Tides’ collection, 2025.

Each print is individually signed and packaged with backing.

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View fullsize MA degree show ⭐️ Hoping to display my work again in the future, so stay tuned! Have had the best year mastering my specialism in printed textile design and gained so much knowledge around the practice, excited to find out what’s next! #text
View fullsize ‘Tradition through Transition’ - a preventative response to climate damage in Orkney Come and see my work on the 7th August at the Heriot-Watt postgrad degree show!⭐️ #immersiveart #textileinstallation #orkney #design #scotland
View fullsize Working toward part of my final printed textiles collection of the MA - big things to come🗿🪨 #textile #design #designer #art #artist
View fullsize Small studies #art #oilpastels #ink #textile #artist
View fullsize Recent WIPs in the studio - drawing, printing and dye mixing #textileprocess #textile #textiledesigner #interiortextiles #art
View fullsize Experimenting with digital drawing - digitally printed cushions with yellow piping detail, embellished with beads and metallic thread
View fullsize The visualisation came to life - @_lizzieforbes modelling the tote (and christmas present) I designed, inspired by Orkney, around Dundee 🌟
View fullsize Some wee snippets of what I’ve been working on over the first semester of my masters degree! Inspired by Orkney and it’s eroding costal landscape, heritage and fascinating history, experimenting with surface textures, developing marks an
View fullsize Some recent pics from my main studio module thus far 🤘🏻 Have mainly been focusing on nailing my colour pallets early on so I can get into the dye lab asap, alongside balancing multiple modules and a tonne of research! My project is focused aroun
View fullsize Inside my undergrad lookbook 🌊 The story behind my undergrad collection of hand screen-printed textiles making up two moods inspired visually by the River Tay, each mood within my collection contrasting against the other - reflecting the turbulent,
View fullsize Some close up shots of a few of my hand printed supporting samples, part of my final collection 🌟 - using reactive and pigment dyes on red edge linen Although these were designed as part of a ‘cushion cover’, finishing home touches col
View fullsize Tomorrow is the last day of displaying my work @ New Designers! If you are in the area, come along and check it out! 🌟 Huge thankyou to everyone who has complimented my work, have had some fabulous conversations and enjoyed meeting some lovely peop

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