Meet Cornish Fabric Designer - Naomi Sisson from Seed Home Designs
Colourful country and coastal inspired fabrics by Seed Home Designs for your upholstery projects.
Meet the Maker
Naomi Sisson
We are pleased to now offer colourful country and coastal inspired fabrics for your upholstery projects by Seed Home Designs.
All fabric designs are hand illustrated by designer Naomi Sisson. Read on to find out more about her work.
Meet the Maker
Naomi Sisson
We are pleased to now offer colourful country and coastal inspired fabrics for your upholstery projects by Seed Home Designs.
All fabric designs are hand illustrated by designer Naomi Sisson. Read on to find out more about her work.
1. Where do you live and work?
I’m fortunate to have a garden studio space at my home, not far from Falmouth. I often work from there, though take frequent trips to other inspiring places – of which there are many!
I mostly work on my own but do take the chance to rub up against other creatives here in Cornwall when I can.
Working with others really helps fuel the creative process for me. I think that as an artist it’s very easy to plough on creating on your own, but I’ve learnt that there is significant value in sharing creative experiences in community.
I really enjoy peaceful and beautiful outdoor spaces to get lost in the process of drawing, so much of my drawing is done when I am out and about. Some of my favourite places are the southwest National Trust gardens, and of course the beautiful coastal paths.
As well as drawing and sketching on location, I often return home with photographs to help me develop those initial ideas further.
This was roughly the process for my latest Coastal Cove fabrics & sustainable wallpaper designs.
2. When and why did you start with your creative work?
I was fortunate to be brought up in a very creative environment.
My parents were folk singers and extremely musical, and I loved going to bed at night or waking up first thing in the morning to the sound of singing or a guitar being strummed. My mum always had some kind of creative project going on. She loved to oil paint and often took over the entire kitchen with her easel, brushes, and paint!
I was home schooled for a period of my childhood, and every Thursday afternoon my Grandparents would come over and teach us painting and drawing. My Grandfather was also an extremely talented draughtsman and ran his own successful business.
I went on to study Multi-Media Textiles at Loughborough University and after I graduated, I free-lanced for fashion, greetings and giftware, and fine art agencies.
I have two girls who I adore and when my youngest started school I began to brew over ideas for designing patterns for fabric. I have always loved interior design and home accessories, so decided to make a go of it, exploring pattern and design for the home.
Hence, Seed Home Designs was born.
3.What do you like the most about the work that you do?
I love the process of illustration and designing, because it becomes a space in which I feel I am truly me, able to be exactly who I feel I was created to be, lost in my own thoughts and at peace.
3.What do you like the most about the work that you do?
I love the process of illustration and designing, because it becomes a space in which I feel I am truly me, able to be exactly who I feel I was created to be, lost in my own thoughts and at peace.
I have also come to realise that I also really love the day to day running of a business, liaising, and meeting new and existing customers at fayres.
I get very excited to hear about the projects that interior designer or soft furnishing makers are incorporating my fabrics or wallpapers into.
4. We know that you offer both fabrics and wallpaper that are sustainably made, tell us about these?
Right from the start of my business I decided that I wanted them to be printed and produced within the UK-that was very important to me and surprisingly difficult when I initially offered smaller products.
My wallpapers are printed on FSC registered high quality paper locally in Cornwall. FSC standing for forest management certification is the stamp of approval to confirm that forests are being managed in a way that preserves biological diversity, benefitting the lives of local people and workers.
My fabric designs are printed digitally printers here in England, they have strong values in offering ethically sourced and GOTs certified organic and recycled cloths.
Both wallpaper & fabrics are digitally printed using water based non-toxic pigment inks. Digital printing is the most eco-friendly method of printing as it is an extremely accurate printing method producing nearly zero waste during the process, in fact only one thimble of waste per 100 meters printed.
We offer our designs on both a natural organic fabric and recycled linen look cloth and are always looking to expand on these as we have them offered to us.
5. We hear that you have created somenew designs, tell us about the inspiration behind those?
Yes, I have created two new collections inspired by my surrounds here in beautiful Cornwall!
My Coastal Cove collection was inspired by the sea and landscape and features hand illustrated shells, seaweed, and samphire. My other most recent collection was inspired by a Meadow next to our home, during the summer months I love to see the grasses gently wafting in the breeze. It really is magical to watch early in the morning or at sunset when the sunlight is low and glows through the seed heads.
The Cornish love dried grasses in their homes which led me to go our sketching to produce this new design.
We are pleased to now offer Seed Home Design fabrics for our footstools, benches, daybeds or bespoke upholstered headboards, like on the Eden Cast Iron Bed, or the Billy Four Poster.
Pop along to our showroom in London or Devon to browse a sample box of both fabrics & wallpapers to order.
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