Hi Edith! Please tell us a little about who you are, where you're from and what you do?
Hello! I'm a textile designer and illustrator, recently based in Lutruwita, Tasmania. I love plants and patterns and sharing my enthusiasm for native Australian plantscapes with you all through my drawings. I have my own label for my personal creative work and also enjoy doing freelance client work for books, stationary, fashion or anything you can put a pattern on!
Hello! I'm a textile designer and illustrator, recently based in Lutruwita, Tasmania. I love plants and patterns and sharing my enthusiasm for native Australian plantscapes with you all through my drawings. I have my own label for my personal creative work and also enjoy doing freelance client work for books, stationary, fashion or anything you can put a pattern on!
Could you share the story behind your wonderful Tsuno artwork on our Super Pads?
It is a small section of a larger artwork I created called 'Wallum Shimmer'. In full it is an imagined wildflower landscape that grew from spending treasured time in the Wallum coastal heathland of SEQLD with other wildflower loving women. Some favourite species feature on the Tsuno box up close, Phebalium woombye, Leptospermum semibaccatum, Philotheca queenslandica, trachymene incisa, Schizaea bifida and Boronia rosmarinifolia.
Could you share with us some of your favourite artworks or projects in your career thus far?
So hard to pick! But in recent years I have shifted a bit more from textiles/fashion into books and publishing. There is nothing like picking up a beautifully designed and produced book, so It is always special to have the opportunity to illustrate plants in books! My fav have been Leaf Supply's 'Plantopedia', Holly Ringland's 'The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart' and recently 'The Commonsense Cookery Book'. My other favourite projects are designing for causes that are close to my heart - I loved drawing some endangered species for Bob Brown Foundation's 'Save Takayna' campaign this year, a turtle for the Wilderness Society and of course working with you on tackling period poverty!
How do you navigate your creative practice and your menstrual cycle?
I love this question! I can't always pull this off depending on deadlines and schedules but in an ideal month in my luteal and menstruation phases I try to keep things pretty gentle and flexible. I have a double whammy of PMDD and Endometriosis so I've learnt it's better to listen to my body during this time! I often feel a bit more internal then too, so I enjoy playing with loose ink work, journal drawing and making time for my own personal creative practice to help move through emotions and pain. I can also really enjoy spending time in nature, observing and drawing in a quiet way during this time. Definitely not a week for meetings, big social events or decision making!
In my follicular and ovulation phases I am much more active, and outgoing, I like to use this part of my cycle when my body is feeling stronger and more energetic to focus on client work and more productive freelance creative outputs.
What's been inspiring you this week?
Different shades of purple in nature this week - the lilac of flowering Olearia ramulosa daisies, magical magenta melaleuca puffs and the dancing stars of wild rock isotomes!
Shop Edith's design on our Super Pads HERE.
