How to Find Your Artistic Style and Voice - Lauren Lesley

Textile Designer Lauren Lesley has been a senior designer for Surya she’s travelled to many trade shows such as High Point Furniture Market, Las Vegas, New York, and Heimtex + Domotex in Germanyand many rug factories in India. Lauren has worked with licensees such as Candice Olson, Country Living, Mike Farrell, and Gluckstein Home and not forgetting Anthropologie and Target Lauren now freelancers and runs online courses- ‘How to become a Textile Designer, ‘How to Find your Own Style’ are just a few examples. Lauren is also a hit on YouTube too! Lauren’s Takeaways  1.Transitioning from designing for a studio to freelance is huge, give yourself the time and grace 2.As a designer it’s crucial you keep your eye on future trends 3.Trends are always watered down for the high street, see what’s coming through ahead of time. Is it big puffy sleeves, pattern clash for example? 4.Finding your style can be a headache! Try not to over think it, you can start by looking at your favourite colour palette 5.Generally, we follow creatives on social media who show a style we are attracted too, so look at what it is that you’re loving in those groups 6.Be sure to work off screen this really changes perspective, scale, colour ways and you can take it back onto the ipad and replicate it after. 7.Be gentle with yourself when you are trying new mediums and  techniques it’s not just ok to mess up, we absolutely should messy up, allow it! You can find Lauren's YouTube channel and work here  https://youtu.be/YqzZRBHyzM8 https://www.laurenlesley.com/