From Rebecca Plater
Rebecca Plater is a conscious creator and visual artist based in Fife. She recently launched her own collection of hand-painted organic homewares and ceramics. Following a background working with an international interior designer and later gaining an MA in illustration at Cambridge School of Art, Rebecca has mastered how to adopt these influences to bring her daily artistic design work to life. She draws on her time spent exploring the natural world and uses watercolour, mark making techniques and mono-printing to capture a suggestive style. Her design work interplays within the liminal space between the real and imagined.
Rebecca spends extended periods of time outside, foraging and observing nature’s intelligence and interconnectedness. She collects items along the shorelines of St Andrews, the Kingsbarns coastal path and the Orkney islands. When not on the beach, she is in the forests around Falkland and surrounding areas collecting. She uses the natural world objects she collects in her art studio creations and uses foraged items for food, kitchen and first aid herbalism. Rebecca also has a passion for herbalism and is an advocate for holistic mind body health. She offers 1:1 holistic health guide sessions using the experiences and knowledge she has gained on her own unique personal journey. She is intending to host some botanical monoprint and clay workshops later this year and next year. You can sign up to her newsletter on her website and follow her social media pages to keep posted on these offerings. You can also contact her directly if you are interested in the workshops or
her product offerings.
Rebecca’s new ceramic Foreshore collection uses shells imprinted into clay that she collected from West Sands Beach in St Andrews. Her recently designed Wild Meadow Lilac Drift organic homewares collection alludes to the wild meadows and rewilding areas of Fife. Her upcoming Library collection of botanical monoprints have each been collected throughout the seasons from around Fife and will be revealed soon. All are available on her website shop: rebeccaplaterillustration.com
“I love observing textures, colours, light and patterns in the natural world. I use mark making in watercolour brush strokes through a playful process which lends itself to shapes and possible objects. From there, in an organic way, I begin to see shapes in the mark making, such as flowers from the wild natural world, but more playful abstract suggestive representations of them, rather than realistic fine art interpretations. I then progressed on to bringing these imaginative images to life and developed them into designs. It was important to me during the design process to make something practical for people, as well as something that is aesthetically pleasing; something that would bring people joy in the everyday tasks within the home. I’m a conscious creator and an advocate for positive luxury and buying better. Inspiring change and sustainability are at the heart of my business, influenced by my connection to nature, from both my childhood on Orkney Islands and later in adult life. I like to encourage responsible ways to shop and promote a more conscious, ethical way of life by creating functional and beautiful lifestyle products using sustainable materials.”
Instagram: @rebeccaplatercreator
Facebook: @rebeccaplaterillustrationanddesign
Rebecca can also be found on LinkedIn
Image copyrights belong to photographer Amelia Claudia | ameliaclaudiaphoto.com
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