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Little me creating the artwork for Anthropologie!
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Tag Archives: Louise Kirby
Pots of Colour
I’ve been mixing delicious colour for my scarf samples for Anthropologie. I’m creating an exclusive range of silk scarves for their 1st Scottish store, opening on George Street in Edinburgh on the 15th June 2011. I will be hand printing these in my studio in Dundee and finishing them myself. I will reveal the scarves on my blog when they are available to buy in the Edinburgh store. Looking forward to seeing my work in their store.
And the winner is……….
The competition to win a scarf has now closed. Each time my mailbox beeped with another suggestion it made me smile! Here are some of the descriptive words to describe my new work. 
It’s great to have your help and hearing how others view my work, as writing about your own work can be difficult.
Thanks to everyone who entered, it’s been difficult to choose. Some of my favourites are – winsome, vivacious, mesmerising, pulsating, rhythmic, expressive, whimsical, camoflagued, obsessive, textural……….
I whittled it down, then couldn’t decide on one winner so I’ve picked 2. So what you’ve been waiting for is, the winner is
and
by Jaclyn and Courtney Crew , please email me your contact details so I can send your scarf – hello@louisekirby.com
Thanks again!
8 pheasants on George Street, Edinburgh
I’ve had a really great day and finished the artwork for Anthropologie store front! Feeling exhausted and exhilarated! I’ve loved the opportunity of taking my design onto a huge scale! Lots of fun doing it and lovely comments from passers by!
All closed up for the night.
Feathered friends
Just a couple of images of where I’ve got to today. I’ve been pretty busy up and down scaffolding, more dab, dab dabbing with the brush, stencils blowing in the wind – think my pheasants wanted to take off! Lots to do tomorrow, with all the stencil of merging patterns and more pheasants.
Day 1 of the big cover-up!
Just a quick image post to show how I’m getting on – just a few hours in and already the white wash is quickly disappearing into a colourful artwork!
Competition
A great opportunity to win one of my scarves by posting a comment below. What you have to do is to describe my new work using 3 descriptive words. Have a go, win a scarf for yourself or give it to someone you like!
The competition closes on Sunday 22nd at midnight! I will select a winner – Goodluck!
Preparation, preparation, preparation…..
Since discovering my design was selected for the hoarding covering Anthropologie‘s new Edinburgh George Street store, I’ve been making sure my original 40 centimetre long artwork can be translated on to the giant 10 meter long space!
I’ve been very busy preparing huge stencils; choosing new delicious especially mixed colours; and laying out the design along my studio corridor to check the scale and visualise the surface I will be decorating. I love seeing my work in different contexts!
I’m very excited about creating the artwork and a wee bit nervous as Scottish film maker David Council is going to be documenting me through the process.
Fingers crossed for sunny weather in Edinburgh from this Thursday onwards!
Big scale news!
I’m very excited to reveal that I’ll be covering Anthropologie‘s brand new Edinburgh store on George Street with my colourful marks! Anthropolgie are an incredible brand with a fantastic mix of women’s fashion, accessories and homeware – the Edinburgh store will be the first in Scotland!
I saw this great opportunity through incredible creative networkers – Central Station, so big thanks to them… It will be amazing to see my work on such a large scale – I can’t wait and am totally up for the challenge.
I don’t want to reveal the final 10m wide design just yet but you can see me live in action at the big blank space, near Lakeland from Thurs 19th May – so please pop past and say hello!
My work will be on show until the official store opening on 15th June, when it will be turned into take-away art for guests at the opening!
Collections looking for good home!
I’ve been gutting out my studio, having bit of a spring clean and getting ready for the Meadow Mill Wasps refurbishment. I’ve been sorting lots of copyright designs back into collections – geometrics, florals, paisleys, menswear shirting, patchwork and embelishment.
From August 1999 to 2007 I worked freelance as a commercial textile designer creating fabric samples following current trends and selling the copyright of my designs to fashion houses and fabric convertors worldwide through agents (David Lee Design Ltd and Lewis and Lewis). Fashion houses such as Debenhams, Etro, East, Nougat and John Kaldor have used my designs as part of their collections.
I love generating ideas and working to briefs. The collections I still have, I own the copyright and they available for sale, please email me if interested: hello@louisekirby.com
Collections fo applique, embellishment and hand painted designs
Collections of geometric designs by Louise Kirby
Collections of floral designs by Louise Kirby