The Printed Wall

When I am not designing wallpaper I am also an Art teacher and mum to a 17-month old. With self isolating, social distancing, impending school closures/on the horizon I thought I would compile a list of fun, cheap and easy things to do at home with your child. Creativity makes for healthy minds!  At the end, I have included links to my favourite educational websites.  1. Home cinema.Rather than just putting on a film to watch make a home cinema. Start by getting the children to make posters for the film, put them up around the house before the film...

How to use wallpaper as design inspiration  My name is Rukmini Patel and I am an Interior Designer, in this guest blog, I will be discussing how to use wallpaper as design inspiration and how I used the Legless Bird of Paradise as the starting point for a client’s dining room. When designing for clients I am sometimes given free rein and asked to create a colourful and fun design. When that happens I draw inspiration from a piece of artwork, object or in this case wallpaper.     I was really drawn to the colours of the Legless Birds of Paradise by Annika and...

The Nudes & the Operating Table If I set out to sculpt a standing man and it becomes a lying woman, I know I am making art Henry Moore Operating Table is a collection of etching and studies I made after being in hospital a few years ago. The time in hospital changed my perception of the human body, specifically the female form. The vulnerability of the body on the operating table - at that moment reduced to its (questionable) functionality - made me consider what it meant to be naked vs nude, and the reduction of the body to...

As we roar into the ’20s a new decade comes new interior trends, pattern is IN which makes a pattern designer very happy! At the end of last year, I started to redecorate my home, I’ve lived here for nearly 4 years and it needed a bit of a revamp. I hung the Chattering of Choughs wallpaper in Deco Blue in the bedroom and the Climbing Vine in Beryl and Porcelain in the living room. This month I am adding the finishing touches such as changing the lighting and painting the interior doors to match the wallpaper, all will be...