“All Over Floral Textile Design” by Judy Foulsham
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I became interested in computer-aided textile design, when I was a final year student at Chelsea School of Art in 1985. The programme we were using at that time was rather slow and primitive, so together John Couch, the technician/programmer, and myself developed “Drawmouse” – a textile orientated print design software package.
For the last 3 years I have been doing both traditional floral watercolour designs for furnishing, and computer-aided designs as well. These were used for experimenting with colourways, repeats, scales, ideas, etc. I have sold many “Drawmouse” designs to Marks & Spencer, mainly floral prints for toiletry packaging collections.
As well as freelance designs, I have lectured and taken workshops on computer-aided design (mainly textiles) to Art Schools and Colleges all over the country. I now work for KGB Micros Ltd in London, designing, training, demonstrating on a sophisticated “paintbox” like computer system, using Truevision and Lumena software.
