Happy New Year Artnthat Readers!

 

Happy New Year! 

All the best for 2011!

Make sure you keep an eye on ARTnTHAT throughout 2011 and thanks for following my blog.

Paris Premier Vision Trip

Visited for a few days to Paris for Premier Vision to buy the new materials for next years collection, but obviously we took in some other stops along the way...

 

Arc De Triomphe

Decided to take a long exposure of the Arc de Triomphe as we took a walk along the Champs de Elysee, not too bad for my first long exposure traffic photograph.

I have to say I'm glad this memorable location was the place of my first long exposure, haha SAD!

New House....

Sorry for not updating my Blog much at the moment, as I just recently moved to a new house and haven't got round to setting up broadband :( bad times I know..

..Away to Paris next weekend however so look out for my Paris photography and textiles research as we visit various Fashion houses and Premier Vision Textiles Exhibition researching the new materials for our next collection.

Edinburgh Fesival.

Decided to go home this weekend to Wishaw and took a last minute  trip with the family to the Edinburgh festival.

While I was there I met up with my friend Holly and we took a walk around taking in the range of culture and atmosphere our capital has to offer.

We are soo lucky to have something as wonderful as the Edinburgh festival in Scotland, the range of shows,exibitions and acts are just unbelievable to be happening in the one city!

I wonder how many Scots really take the time to experience the culture their country has to offer at the Edinburgh festival which is something I instantly noticed not hearing one Scottish accent in the crowd

RIGHT: The worlds most pierced woman...only one of the more peculiar aspects of the festival on the walk of the Royal Mile.

 An excellent day out, would recommend it to anyone!

Daily Photo Blog

Thats me been taking a daily photograph for 82 days now.

I've found it so very interesting yet challenging at the same time, its often difficult to to think of something or somewhere to photograph (especially a lazy Sunday) but I've realised by undertaking this personal project that I have really started looking at things very differently, its often the things that we become complacent and oblivious to that are the most interesting if we take the time to notice.

As the saying goes "Take time to smell the roses"

I defiantly plan in continuing this project and look forward to looking back in a years time at how my photograph  and life has evolved a every day.

Check out my Daily Photo Blog!

Art School Summer Project

Well we have just received our summer project for textiles, the summer break is nearly over however better late than never.

Although extremely busy with work at the moment with the release for the New Collection of Collars and Snoods  I have decided to spend a couple of hours (or at least one) a night to get the project going.
The project is to

• Buy Elle & Elle Home magazine
• Create 20 drawings inspired by the magazines
• Write 2 essays on each of the magazines
• Start a fabric bible to refer to costs and where to buy

Luckily the with the work we are doing for the winter collection of Collars and our visit to Paris in September the fabric samples shouldn't be too difficult to gather.

These are some of the drawings I have completed so far for this project.....Don't worry I wont bore you with the essays.....yet

Norwood Hall Hotel....

Norwood Hall Hotel.... 
Myself and CARi have been have been commissioned to design a wedding dress. It will be in keeping with the décor of Norwood Hall hotel,and we thought would visit for inspiration and research as this is the venue for the wedding....

Took some photos whilst out there today....

Keep uptodate about the wedding dress on my blog.....:) Ciao for now....