Jack and Jill of all trades

Sarah is an artist/designer/educator based in Birmingham, UK. She is most well known for her bold, graphic pattern designs that are applied to a range of products – from clothing, to watch faces to packaging. Sarah worked for many years designing patterns for gift boxes at Lush Handmade Cosmetics, with other clients including Anthropologie, 3M and Haagen Dazs.

In recent years, Sarah has returned to her fine art practice using paint, printmaking and collage methods. Her current body of work involves using a range of techniques to add colour and pattern to used cardboard packaging materials, destroying them and then reassembling into compositions. Whatever her medium, Sarah’s process is about play, experimentation and fun!

John Hall is a multidisciplinary designer and artist.

He runs the international textile print design studio “About Pattern”, providing surface pattern designs to a wide range of fashion and lifestyle brands. Clients include Uniqlo, Philip Lim, Foot locker and H&M – www.aboutpattern.com

As a fine art practitioner John’s work explores the joy of paint as a medium in its own right. His paintings have been exhibited in a wide range of venues, and are an investigation of pattern, abstract shapes and forms inspired by motifs found throughout the city. Paint is assembled by layering torn and shredded acrylic paint skins onto more traditionally painted surfaces.