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I am currently studying Art Foundation after gaining a dipolma in Fashion as I want to expand my art skills as I think it’s key to be as creative as you can be in fashion, it was also a way to re-create myself and develop my art work further. I have experimented with a broad variety of different techniques from 3D, painting and printing, this has helped me broaden my approach and helped me to think more laterally.
I feel the course has definatley made me more creative as a designer and I like to incorperate my new art skills in to my fashion garments.
Fashion has been a passion of mine for many years and my ambition to be a designer has never faltered.
I think that Manchester Metropolitan University has the perfect course for me,BA (HONS) Fashion as I think it will widen my knowledge in fashion,develop my talent further and help me gain the skills I need for the fashion industy so I go in to it fully prepared. The university also has a very good reputation for it's fashion department with successful graduates and it would be an honour to study at such a recongnised institute.






These pieces are from a life drawing.I used charcoal for the shading and soft chalk pastel. Each piece is A3.









This is a section of a dress I designed inspired by Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
The brief was 'Organic Stuctures' so I chose to use flowers as my main part of the project.I used watercolour pencils and acrylic paint to colour the peice.
This measures just over A1.














This is a garment I made from the Organic Structures project.
It's based on a Passion flower and the weave represents the flowers tube like petals within it. I dyed the material.The skirt contains several leaves underneath it with I made from wire and nylon.











This is a page from one of my sketchbooks and 2 of several designs from the project.
Lord of The Rings was my theme,I looked at what inspired the author.William Morris was one of his inspirations so I looked into his work and from him I went on to do fabric samples with prints of his work.These pieces measure A4 in size.














These are designs I did for a project based on tattoos and I wanted to incorperate tattoo art into garments.
These measure at A3.



















These are 2 designs and a mood board.
I looked into all various fashion throughout the 20th century, these are my 1980's section of the project.The mood board measures A3 and the designs are just over A4.




This was part of my FMP for Fashion.
My theme was Vampires.
This is a page on an artist called Victoria Frances I looked more in to her work as I noticed the garments on her Vampire artwork.This measures at A4.











This is from the same project, I looked in to Dolce and Gabbana as one of their collections was inspired by the 18th century. Under is 2 of several designs inspired from the collection.These measure at A4.


















This was my final piece for my FMP.
I used silk for the corset and printed material for the skirt as it had an 18th century style pattern on it.
I made the pattern myself for both out of Calico then made the final version.
I ruched the skirt for added texture and I also ruched the corset.




This is a mood board from a project based on recycling.This measures at A3.

This is the garment I made from the project made from newspaper.
Garey Harvey was the main inspiration for this. I used newpaper as the texture is good to add all different types of effects and the bodice was paper mache I also sprayed over the paper with silver spray paint.

These are 2 sketchbook pages from my last project I did,I looked at self portraits as I was doing it on my family.One of the artists I looked at was Shawn Baber Below are samples inspired from Shawn Barber as I wanted to still stitch in to my art work and not move totally away from my fashion skills.
These measure at A3.