Poetry inspired textile designs by Jenny Smith

I have just been researching people who've done work experience with the Designers Guild, and I came across the work of Jenny Smith. Her textile designs are illustrative with rich colours. Designs have painterly gestures and hand drawn linear qualities, depicting exotic birds and flowers. She was inspired by her “personal response to descriptive poetry from Eastern Asia, India and South America” (Smith 2005: web). She places a “strong emphasis on colour and detail, while ensuring an illustrative and light hearted quality to them.” (Smith 2005: web). The technical process involved the designs being “produced digitally onto fabrics and papers and then selectively printed onto using dry printing processes to enrich the imagery.” (Smith 2005: web). An interesting way of exploring poetic narrative within textile design. The images above show examples of her work.