Jess Fraser

My name is Jess Fraser, a printed textile designer with a first-class honours from Central Saint Martins in Textile Design. As a designer, I love creating pieces that resonate with those interacting with them, as well as sparking joy and inspiration. In my graduate year, I began working with natural dye screenprint pastes and fell in love with the process, from boiling dyes and mixing pastes to designing with the process in mind. It is a time-consuming but rewarding technique which creates natural and sustainable prints with rich colours. I take inspiration from art history, my favourite designers being Vanessa Bell or mid-century designers like Gere Kavanaugh, who saw textiles and design as more than creativity, but a way of enriching people's lives and spaces. I try to approach my design work in a similar way, hand painting designs, combining feeling with natural dyes and print - celebrating the natural world and the way we interact with it.