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Bernat Klein's textile designs were inspired by the Scottish landscape. He deconstructed images from nature into flat planes of colour, and created oil paintings with a technique called impasto , in which oil paint is applied on a board in thick layers with a palette knife to yield dynamism. [ 16 ]
Screen with embroidered panels, 1885-1910, designed by John Henry Dearle V&A Museum no. CIRC.848-1956. Dearle was born in Camden Town, north London, in 1859. [2] He began his career as an assistant in Morris & Co.'s retail showroom in Oxford Street in 1878, [3] and then transferred to the company's glass painting workshop, where he worked mornings and studied design in the afternoons. [1]
Althea McNish CM FSCD (15 May 1924 – 16 April 2020) was an artist from Trinidad who became the first Black British textile designer to earn an international reputation. [3] ...
Lucienne Day's early textiles were inspired by her love of modern art, especially the abstract paintings of Paul Klee and Joan Miró. Reflecting on recent trends in textiles in 1957, Lucienne observed: "In the very few years since the end of the war, a new style of furnishing fabrics has emerged....
John Samuel Tunnard ARA (7 May 1900 – 12 December 1971) was an English modernist designer and abstract painter, and anti-hunting activist. He was the cousin of landscape architect Christopher Tunnard .
William Morris died on October 3, 1896, but the Morris & Co. continued to design and produce textiles he had designed or planned, under the supervision of his chief assistant and Art Director John Henry Dearle. Dearle managed the company's textile works at Merton Abbey until his own death in 1932.
John Hewson gravestone in Palmer Cemetery in Philadelphia. John Hewson (1744 – 1821) was a textile artist. He trained in a cotton-printing factory in London, but moved to the United States on the advice of his friend Benjamin Franklin, and set up a calico printing factory in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, poet, artist, [1] writer, and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts movement. He was a major contributor to the revival of traditional British textile arts and methods of production.