Summer 2023 Wallpaper and Home Textiles Collection

I am so happy to share that my 2023 collection of wallpaper and home textile patterns is now available to shop. More than any other textile designs I have worked on, these four designs are inspired by my artwork- what has changed, and what has stayed the same- since I got started a little over nine years ago.

I designed this collection while working on the “Play” and “Tapestry” series. Like the artwork from those collections, these four designs are inspired by nostalgia, folk art, and traditional art-making techniques like block-printing, hand-embroidery, and bone-inlay. This is a whimsical and fun collection, but I tried to add a bit of sophistication to each design, too, so that the designs are versatile enough to work not only in nurseries or playrooms, but also in common areas. 

Each pattern is inspired by a piece of original artwork I’ve created in the past year, and for one reason or another sort of fell in love with (and I know it’s weird to say this about my own work, but trust me that it’s the exception when this happens- not the rule!) These pieces feel like me, or atleast the “me,” as an artist, who I hope to share with the world. 

“Poppy” is the first home textile design I’ve created using mixed media (everything up to this point has been watercolor only)! The original artwork I used to create this pattern was a botanical blockprint collage from my “Play Series”. The original collage was inspired by a bone-inlay mirror I saw and loved. I kept this design at its original scale, so that you can see the texture from the blockprinted flowers on the wallpaper. 

“Star” is inspired by a painted “wallpaper” I created while painting a dollhouse for my daughter, Bryn, this past fall. I actually took a photo of the room in the dollhouse and scaled it in Photoshop so that the real wallpaper scale matches the dollhouse wallpaper scale, and color-matched as closely as I could to the original design.

“Meadow” is inspired by a floral design I painted on a thrifted rolltop desk for Bryn. The original design was inspired by hand-embroidered flowers I saw on some antique fabric, and our manufacturer helped me color-match the florals and yellow scallops to bright, vibrant pastel paint swatches I loved. I painted this design on textured paper to give the wallpaper a hand-painted feel. 

Finally- “Whimsy” is my favorite design I’ve ever worked on. After working on a mural for Paloma Contreras’ daughter’s bedroom this winter, I knew that I wanted to create a large-scale repeat of little watercolor scenes- artwork that a child could look at for hours while falling asleep at night, making up stories in his or her head about it. I painted this design to scale (a little over four feet wide) so that the painterly quality of the artwork translates to the printed paper and fabric. The end result reminds me a little of the end-papers from vintage children’s books (think Golden Books!) 

I kept this collection small because I only want to release designs I absolutely love that feel representative of who I am as an artist now, but in anticipation of who I’ll be in five, ten, or twenty years. I can’t wait to see these designs in your homes!