I ask her if, in the years she worked
as a textile designer in New York before her return to China and her emergence as an artist to be reckoned with, she could have imagined all this.
After scouring everywhere from charity shops and vintage stores to rubbish heaps to her friend's castaways, she finds inspiration in the actual material: «I take these garments as raw material for my shoes and highlight the beauty of the textiles themselves, thus preserving and honouring the work of many people
such as textile designers, print and weave masters and manufacturers who put an effort before me,» she states.
Los Angeles About Blog Marjorie Sarnat's fanciful coloring book style evolved from her love of patterns, which she developed through an earlier
career as a textile designer.
After having worked
as a textile designer in Tokyo for a few years, she turned to painting and printmaking based on abstract forms and fields.
She subsequently pursued a master's degree in printmaking under Gabor Peterdi at Hunter College, while
working as a textile designer and free - lance illustrator of children's books.
After moving to the UK, she pursued an education in textile design and spent several
years as a textile designer and illustrator, as well as teaching in schools, adult education and the Prison Service.
I never imagined that my father's career as a military officer and my career
as a textile designer would intertwine like this,» she said.
In 1959, she received her B.F.A. from Yale and returned to New York, where she worked
as a textile designer.
Lin began her career
as a textile designer, later incorporating weaving, sewing and embroidery into her fine art practice.
Carline's first career was
as a textile designer, working with designers such as Ralph Lauren, Pierre Cardin, and Christian Dior.
After graduating in 1927 from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Jones began her career
as a textile designer.
As these women artists, some from the Bauhaus school, worked both as painters and
as textile designers, Gualdoni places equal emphasis on their genre - blending careers as on their insistence on inserting lived experience into the constricted categories of fine art.
Refusing work
as a textile designer, Spears took on book illustration assignments and received a solo exhibition of her drawings at the Weyhe Gallery.
Upon graduating from the Academy Voros started to work
as a textile designer.
He studied design originally at the Royal College of Art: his first job was
as a textile designer in Manchester in the early 1920s, and it wasn't until 1928 that he took up painting professionally.