Elizabeth Ashdown

Elizabeth Ashdown 

http://www.elizabethashdown.co.uk

Elizabeth Ashdown's work specialises in making innovative and contemporary mixed media designs for both fashion and interior markets.

She also makes woven jewellery alongside designs for embroidery and printed textiles and she has done commissions for Liberty and Cassamance.

The materials she uses are very unique and unusual. She uses a mix of thick and thin yarns to create really structurally interesting pieces. I think that this really works to create interesting pieces that are different in every way.

She uses really bright and almost clashing colours in some of her pieces and i feel that this works really well when the whole piece comes together, but she also really thinks about the colours that are used as in some of her more fashion/clothing pieces she has to really think about how the colours will contrast with the garment itself. I think that with the garment pieces she has used colours in a clever way to almost blend in with the garment and not stand out and her piece then become part of the garment itself.