A Textile Design graduate from Falmouth University, Jade specialises in print and creates playful and contemporary patterns. She has been freelancing and establishing herself as a creative brand in the Midlands since leaving Falmouth in 2016.
Never afraid to use too much colour, her designs are distinctively bold, exploring and combining the use of graphic shapes and colours. Jade’s style reflects her passion for art movements and design styles from throughout the 20th century, ranging from Cubism, Bauhaus, Pop art, mid-century, psychedelia, Op art and 1980s postmodernism. As a result, her work is modern yet nostalgic. She is particularly inspired by female artists and designers who have paved the way, such as Anni Albers, Sonia Delaunay, Lucienne Day, Bridget Riley, Nathalie du Pasquier, Orla Kiely and more recently, Camille Walala.
Using her patterns, Jade also produces stationery, home accessories, greetings cards, prints and more. She has also expanded her love of colour and pattern to creating hand-painted statement jewellery, using both wooden laser-cut shapes and polymer clay. This allows her to experiment and create intricate, one-off pieces, bringing her bold style to everyday fashion accessories. She enjoys working on both the digital and handmade elements within her products.
Jade is open to working on artist collaborations and projects - commissions, stockists and wholesale enquiries are also welcome!
Work history
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Team MemberOliver Bonas
Birmingham, United KingdomPart Time
Providing great customer service and product knowledge to assist customers, operating the till, managing EOD figure spreadsheets, showing awareness of KPIs and targets, stock replenishment, visual merchandising areas of the store (i.e. dressing mannequins, pegboards and shelves), gift wrapping, collecting parcel deliveries, cashing up tills, being a key holder, opening/closing store and general tidying duties in a busy train station store.
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Print Design Work PlacementPhase Eight
- London, United KingdomInternship
Assisting within the design department; work consisted of creating speculative print designs, placement print designs, upcoming seasonal trend research and creating a trend report, choosing colour swatches, choosing prints from their in-house archive, visiting The Design Library with the team and assisting with choosing prints, and general admin work.
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Skills
- Visual Arts
- Print Design
- Design
- Sewing
- Textile Design
- Illustrator
- Indesign
- Photoshop
- Pattern Design
- Digital Design
- Screen Print Design
- Dyeing Fabric
- Textile Design and Print
- Illustration
- Graphic Design
Education
2:1 BA (hons) degree - Textile DesignFalmouth University
- Falmouth, United Kingdom
I specialised in print throughout my course, working on various projects and we took on live briefs for Joules, Liberty and Hill & Co Rugs. I was a runner-up for my scarf design presented to the head of design at Liberty Art Fabrics. My most exciting challenge was being one of three chosen students from our course to work on designing the fabric for a specialist gown for our new university chancellor, Dawn French. We were chosen from each of our specialisms within textile design - I worked on the Cornish floral drawings which were an overall design on the outer fabric and I created a painterly tartan print for the lining.
Distinction, Foundation Year in Art and DesignDe Montfort University
- Leicester, United Kingdom
A really insightful year where I got to experiment with working in many new styles and media, as well as picking up new skills within design and craft. I specialised in Fashion and Textiles, where I was able to build on the skills I needed to go on to study my desired course, BA (Hons) Textile Design.