Surface Pattern Design

I am exploring using my art work in a totally different way - creating repeating patterns. I hope to take many sketches out of my sketchbooks and give them another life as patterns for stationery or wallpaper or fabric. I'll share a few of my explorations here.
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These are works in progress but will eventually be available on Spoonflower or other print-on-demand locations. I have some ideas for scarves and fabrics made from my colour swatches and mixing charts that I have wanted to create for years and am finally learning how to do them 🙂

This is a half-drop pattern based on tulips. I see it as dress fabric. I guess it could also be wall-paper. I'll create some variations using tossed flowers in a far more random arrangement to created some non-directional patterns that would be more suitable for quilting.

The process is time-consuming but rather fascinating and I'm exploring Illustrator, Procreate and many digital techniques that are way out of my very analog comfort zone.

This looks very much like wallpaper to me. Based on one of my favourite flowers - the Gymea Lily. I plan to do more with these flowers, though perhaps with a watercolour flower rather than this pen and ink version which created massive vector files.

​I really love the harvest produce from the norther hemisphere and am creating a whole collection of patterns on this theme. I'll add them here eventually. I'd love a notebook or sketchbook cover in this. Or a fabric. It looks nice in a range of colour-ways too.

​This is a massive file even with limited colours. It was a nightmare to get it to repeat but it is strangely satisfying when it finally does!

I think this one would be fun for wall-paper or stationery.