I have launched a new website to view, like, share and buy my art!

I have launched a new website to view, like, share and buy my art!

See it here:
https://www.kirsteen.art

Original artwork by Kirsteen Lyons-Benson (BA Hons)
Mixed media on paper.

Kirsteen Lyons is the child of two artists who met at Glasgow art school in the sixties, got married, and fled the city to a remote Scottish island, to live on a beach, in a tent, with two kittens and a chest of drawers.

Growing up in a craft pottery, and later a cottage in the woods, Kirsteen planned to rebel, and have central heating and breakdown cover when she grew up!

Grow up she did, and studied textile design, not fine art (more rebellion). She did very well at university winning two prestigious competitions and getting a job with Muraspec (a wallpaper manufacturer) straight out of uni, it was new product development, so she went from there to other innovation companies,
and tried all sorts of middle class ideas out, including paying a mortgage, and working in PR, but soon found her parents were correct - they are very overrated ideas.

Kirsteen tried selling paintings on line, London markets, starting and running a craft fair, starting a gallery and pottery, starting and running a face painting business, and finally returned to textile design to freelance from home, and be mum to a daughter and a son.

After designing fashion fabrics for Amanda Kelly Design Studios for a few years, she has recently made the switch back to interior fabrics and wallpaper and signed with an established and prestigious studio in Europe.

She has now fully come to terms with her hippy origins and feels she belongs in middle class suburban England like a Bengal tiger belongs on a water slide! For this reason Kirsteen spent the last two years travelling Spain, France and Portugal on a camper van!

Kirsteen creates original paintings inspired by nature and travel. She has painted and designed all her life, at no time is she more herself than with brush in hand, or a sticky juice carton and shoes belonging to her kids! 😂💙🎨✏️

Contact info:
Kirsteen Lyons (BA Hons)
+44 7799201417
kirsteenann@gmail.com
Facebook:
https://m.facebook.com/KirsteenBenson
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/artdreamsgallery

Youtube:
https://m.youtube.com/user/kirsteenartwork/videos

Blogs:

Art:
http://createadrawingaday.blogspot.co.uk

Textile design:
http://enchantedtextiledesign.blogspot.co.uk

Read about my travel and some artwork:
http://feelcreaterepeat.blogspot.com

Kids art projects:
http://artistmummy.blogspot.co.uk

New Design From Enchated Textile Design By Kirsteen Lyons

New Design From Enchated Textile Design
By Kirsteen Lyons

Exhibition at the London Fashion and Textiles Museum - Artists Textiles

Exhibition at the London Fashion and Textiles Museum - Artists Textiles 

This exhibition features the fabric designs of famous artists.  http://ftmlondon.org

I went to this exhibition and was really inspired. As a Textile Designer who came from a family of painters and then learned the rules of textile design at uni I found it liberating. I can ignore the rules! I can return to my painter roots and create much less traditional fabrics.

The Exhibition features fabrics from Dali, Picasso, Ben Nicholson, Chagall, Matisse and many more.

I took a few pictures.

(Thank you to the FTM for permission to take and use photos).

The London Fashion and Textiles Museum.

It's in a nice bit of London.

The fabrics

Ben Nicholson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Nicholson

Duncan Grant

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Grant

John Piper

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Piper_(artist)

Pablo Picasso

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso

An advert for the Picasso fabric.

Rockwell Kent

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockwell_Kent

And many more. It is a really inspiring exhibition.

Kirsteen Lyons

kirsteenann@gmail.com

London Textile Fair

I am pleased that Pattern Observer used my photos and words in their blog.

Here is my report on the London Textile Fair

http://patternobserver.com/2014/01/28/the-london-textile-fair

London Textile Fair

London Textile Fair

Business Design Centre, Islington, London

 21-22 January 2014

I have to admit that when you work for yourself, you can sometimes find you are working in a bubble, and too much alone, so perhaps this is why I was ridiculously excited about going to the London Textile Fair. www.businessdesigncentre.co.uk

The London Textile Fair was in three parts: The main hall, for textile manufacturers and their UK agents, the accessories and trims hall and an upstairs gallery for print design studios. http://thelondontextilefair.co.uk

The standard and variety of prints, in the print studio section of the show, was world class, and I received a lot of warm and encouraging responses, to my questions, about the state of the printed textile design industry today.

In the main hall textile manufacturers were very willing to look at portfolios and artwork, weather from studios or freelancers. “It is the artwork that matters, not where it comes from.”  was the response I kept getting.

Islington has an aliveness too, I loved the little vintage boutiques and markets.

The whole experience gave me, not only a lot of new contacts and avenues to do business on but also an impression that I was part of a creative and successful design scene in London and further afield.

Kirsteen Lyons

BA (Hons) Printed Textile Design, MD / Designer

Kindle and iPad Cases by Kirsteen Lyons BA (Hons)

Here are the lovely quality kindle and iPad cases.

Previously my designs here were only available as snap on phone cases.

How I Design Textiles_Enchanted Textile Design

How I Design Textiles. Enchanted Textile Design. Kirsteen Lyons BA (Hons)

How I Design Textiles. Enchanted Textile Design. Kirsteen Lyons BA (Hons)

(Video under 3 minutes long)

Art and Design With Integrity.

Art and Design With Integrity.

I find it is fatal to worry about "who am I going to sell this to?" and "How much for?" when creating any kind of art and design.

My thoughts get into the work and infect it somehow, ironically leaving me with unsellable work. It has been my experience that the art I create with integrity sells first.

When I create a painting or design for the sheer joy of the redness of roses I sell it before I have fully removed the bubble wrap at my next exhibition. When I create a painting because my other red roses sold, I end by taking that painting to the skip - even I don't want it on my walls.

What has been your experience? I would love to know.

Kirsteen

kirsteenann@gmail.com

Textile Design: Continuous repeating designs in Photoshop film 2

Kirsteen Lyons Designing iPhone, iPad and Kindle cases.

Designing iPhone, iPad and Kindle cases.

I am really enjoying designing iPad, iPhone and Kindle cases.

Here is a screen shot of the fun!

Design by Kirsteen Benson BA (Hons)

Photoshop colour separations for textile design

 Text and know how by
K.Ravi
www.k-ravidesigns.com

Screen shots and some notes from trying it out by
Kirsteen Lyons

New collection - Enchanted Textile Design

New collection - Enchanted Textile Design

Printed Textile Design - Enchanted Textile Design - Kirsteen Lyons BA Hons

kirsteenann@gmail.com

New Collection from Enchanted Textile Design

 

Contact Kirsteen on 07799201417

kirsteenann@gmail.com

See inside my Textile Design Studio. What does a Textile Designer do? Kirsteen Lyons BA (Hons)

See inside my Textile Design Studio.

 What does a Textile Designer do?

 Kirsteen Lyons BA (Hons) shows you fer fabrics and upcoming printed textile design collection. Sneak a look in a designers studio.

Enchanted Textile Design, Fabrics by Kirsteen Lyons

Enchanted Textile Design, Fabrics by Kirsteen Lyons