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Linda Lovatt

We had a talk today from craft designer Linda Lovett who spoke about her work and how she arrived there. Working as an in house designer for giftware companies like Colour box and Nesco, she produced sketches to be sent to a modler. Making Winnie the pooh, Beatrix potter and other images to be made into music box's, figures and more. Linda felt she needed a change and started freelancing, Making jewellery and brooches, pulling inspiration from her garden and bits of china she found she started making Figures and more recently clocks. Showing her work off at craft fairs she started getting a good response and started getting orders in. Now she has her own shop, teaches and sells work to galleries.

I found Linda Lovatt very inspiring because she told us she started in a BTEC art course wanting to be an illustrator for children's books and not seeing where her talents lay. Saying she had her eyes set on illustration and not looking at other things really spoke to me, wanting to be an FX artist i released i should be looking more into other things and not just have my eyes set on sfx. I also saw a lot of inspiration from her for one of my units on my course, looking into up cycling and shabby chic.

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