Meet The Maker: Fine Artist, Lauren Stringini

3 March 2020

Meet The Maker: Fine Artist, Lauren Stringini

Julia Canella | Inspiration | 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.

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 to detail, love of colour, and artistic botanical illustrations each carry her creative process as a textile designer.

Following an idyllic childhood in Townsville, where she was always playing outdoors, 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 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 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.