Desks in action-The 1st yr students are truly involved in print and embroidery.Look at these desks!

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Yesterday to London

to catch up and be inspired.photo-22

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Amongst the many places we visted were the Institute of Contemporary Art on the Mall for the Bloomberg New Contemporaries and Julie Verhoeven,photo 1

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photo 4The Photographers Gallery Soho for Edward Steichen

– In High Fashion,The Conde Nast Years and Viviane Sassen Analemma,Fashion Photography 1992-2012.

Base fabrics

The first day of printing base fabrics for the 1st years.Preparing for embroidery and, of course, more advanced printing techniques.Keep it coming.
Great dyed backgrounds too.Well done everyone,
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It’s Magic!

Each new week brings it’s own magic to the Art School in the form of a myriad of fresh ideas transformed into magical outcomes.

Next week the second years will actually be looking at magic!

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Entrance to my office 2015

photo-21 Happy New Year to all the students at Bath School of Art and Design. What a fantastic year ahead.You are producing some tremendous work.

Three different types of drawing styles and three very different subjects.

No house style!

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A vital part of the design process

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Ready to translate

into constructed, embroidered or printed outcomes but first into the dye room to prepare the fabrics and into the studio to make the yarns.Can’t wait to see how the students will tackle this.

Rushing to the deadline.

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Quick snapshots from around the !st yr studio as I record a last minute dash to the deadline.Good luck everyone.
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The 1st years prepare for assessment of colour and drawing

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D-day on Friday