Lily Batsford is a Mixed Media Textile Designer specialising in both hand and CAD
embroidery. She has a passion for creating and sourcing sustainable products,
with the bulk of her collection consisting of reused and second hand sourced
fabrics. Her pieces are bespoke one-off pieces that can be used for either
interiors or fashion.
Lily explores traditional techniques and natural imagery inspired by the history of
her childhood home, Derbyshire. Often modernising and playing on the
traditional concepts but honouring their linage as she works.
Her aptitude for creative thinking allows her to work to adapt to many different
surfaces. These tactile skills combined with Lily’s sensitive approach to colour
and material allow her to create collections that celebrate sustainable textiles.
Producing beautifully made pieces that give a second life to things forgotten.
Projects
- Sustaining past livesIn my final year my major project was centred around the Derbyshire landscape where I grew up, my home. But looking at it through the lens of the author Jane Austen as she wrote about it for her characters in her best-known novel, ‘Pride and Prejudice’. I am intrigued by the Bennett family, a cohesive unit that slots perfectly into the landscape. Not being a wealthy family, everything they do is to perpetuate and sustain their existence in the precarious comfort of their farm. They battle their
Skills
- Digital Embroidery
- Hand Embellishing
- Fabric Manipulation
- Colour Sense
- Creative Ideas/concepts
- People Skills
- Adobe Create Suite
- Textile Dyeing
Education
BA(Hons) Printed Textiles and Surface Pattern DesignArts University Bournemouth
United Kingdom
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A levels in English lit (B), Textile design (A), Art (B)Lady Manners School
United Kingdom
Awards
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costume society student awardcostume society (UK)
This bursary funds two students to attend the Costume Society's annual three-day conference. It is open to UK full-time and part-time students at a graduate and postgraduate level engaged in research directed towards the presentation of a dissertation or thesis. http://costumesociety.org.uk/awards/winners/lily-batsford-arts-university-bournemouth-2016