Lorna Brown

Blessed Unrest Studio is a contemporary textile brand run by print artist Lorna Brown. This range of hand printed textiles and products make an immediate impact. Their complex and skilled layering of imagery and considered colour palette work together to express a bold, maverick style.

'My prints evolve as a direct response to the screen printing process. I enjoy working intuitively with a variety of imagery; layering, covering up and revealing is the core element of my practice.'

Working with photographic and hand drawn motifs Lorna considers the surface pattern, the rhythm along with the spaces between the imagery. Working with opaque and transparent ink allows her to control which areas to reveal or cover up. By overprinting, masking areas to reveal the previous images she builds up a layered history of each print. Blessed Unrest's textiles are hand crafted, distinctive artworks but with a focus of function and purpose.

Ink on Mesh is the educational strand of the studio, here Lorna and her collaborators, offer a fabulous range of short and more in depth classes in printed & stitched textiles, printmaking, bookbinding and dressmaking along with studio and equipment inductions and open access training.