Meet The Maker: Fine Artist Lauren Stringini
Lifestyle | 03 March 2020
An Australian Textile Designer of the Year award-winner, Lauren's beautiful painting hand and design passion led her to officially join our design studio last year.
Read on to meet one of our many super-talented designers.
Armed with a bachelor of arts in textile design, Lauren initially undertook an internship with our design team following her RMIT/Linen House Industry Partnership award, which saw her develop a complete bed linen story under mentorship.
Her attention detail, love of colour and artistic botanical illustrations each carry her creative process as a textile designer.
Following an idyllic childhood playing outdoors in Townsville, Lauren maintains nature is a constant source of inspiration and happiness.
She cares deeply about sustainability and enduring design and aims to create textiles that feel like works of art – to be loved, cared for and passed on.
Tell us about your creative process with Livia.
It was my very first design in my new role at Linen House! Each motif is hand-painted in gouache to capture the lush detail of banana leaves and fan palms.
The palette in Livia maintains a timeless vintage aesthetic with its cool and warm tones, creating a perfect winter tropical design.
How do you like to design?
I always begin with an idea that excites and inspires me. I enjoy working to a brief or outline, as I can feel overwhelmed by choice in the planning phase.
With my own designs, I'll visualise the end result to help push through those difficult stages of the design process. Once I begin, I strive to achieve a result I'm proud of.
I look to nature, which inspires my patterns and colour-combinations. My "hand-writing" as a designer is heavily illustrative, with a focus on capturing realistic, hand-rendered details using pencil or paintbrush.
I can be a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to designing – my love of detail doesn't help!
Maintaining a hand-painted or hand-drawn aesthetic is central to my practice as a textile designer. I aim for textiles to look and feel like pieces of art to be cared for and connected with.
What drew you to textile design?
I've always loved art, fashion and homewares. I feel that textile design is a great way to combine these passions.
I'm also inspired by the power that textiles have with regard to a person's relationship with their belongings.
I love the idea that someone might cherish a belonging if the textile is special or beautiful enough.
Name three things you cannot live without?
My family, friends and dogs.
Design-wise, I'll always need a thin paintbrush, a Photoshop subscription and a large supply of white gouache!
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The result of Lauren's impeccable painting hand in this reinvented winter botanical, the Livia range, is no longer available.
To shop for your next tropical refuge, see our collection of much-adored botanicals here.