Geek out with us about Liberty as Lauren Godfrey chats with Kassia St Clair about 'Liberty' as an adjective, getting lost in summer garden florals and Oscar Wilde’s hot take on the icon that is Liberty.

Kassia St Clair is the UK’s best selling historian under 40, selling hundreds of thousands of books globally, you might know her best for her brilliant book The Secret Lives of Colour in which she profiles the remarkable untold histories of pigments, inks and hues through time or perhaps her sumptuous book, The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History, telling of the depths to which our lives are intertwined with fabric and textiles, a topic I’m particularly passionate about here at Pattern Portraits!

In celebration of the 150th Anniversary of Liberty, Kassia has written a stunning new book titled ‘LIBERTY - Design, Pattern, Colour’, presenting the very latest examples of Liberty Design alongside prints, drawings and samples from the company’s outstanding archive, telling an inspiring, century long story of manufacturing quality and design excellence.

In Kassia’s characteristically poetic and lyrical style, she brings to life the stories of well loved and brand new Liberty patterns alike, told through chapters marking the key pillars of Liberty design, the book is a full colour celebration of one of the most unique and remarkable design houses of our time. Launching on 15th May 2025, the book is published by Thames and Hudson and is widely available to buy now!

Kassia has chosen a wonderful cross section of Liberty patterns that feature in the book and span the lifetime of Liberty from the late 19th Century design ‘Hera’, via classic Liberty floral ‘Betsy’ (1933), to two very different designs from the sixties; Althea McNish’s undulating ‘Hula Hula’ and Bernard Nevill’s geometric ‘Corbusier’ and finally bang up to date with illustrator Hattie Stewart’s playful ‘Hattie Park’ from 2022.

You can see all of Kassia’s patterns and more on instagram @patternportraitspodcast

‘Maybe Betsy’ - The PATTERN PORTRAIT print artwork to accompany Kassia’s interview and featuring the patterns we discuss is available to buy now at www.laurengodfrey.co.uk

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Step into the wiggle world of designer Bethan Laura Wood as she chats with Lauren Godfrey about hidden versus mirrored repeats, the similarities between kaleidoscopes and iPhones and pattern in three dimensions.

Known for her joyful and maximalist approach to design, Bethan Laura Wood has turned her hand to furniture, lighting, rugs and even handbags. Enhancing all she does with a friendly wiggle, a playful pattern and an immaculate eye for colour.

Bethan has collaborated with many companies including Hermes, Perrier-Jouet champagne and fine porcelain manufacturers, Rosenthal. She has work in collections worldwide including at the V&A and The Design Museum in London.

Bethan has chosen a veritable party of patterns including an Otomi embroidery from Mexico, a quilt from Pakistan, a book matched section of veneer made by Bethan, a vibrant Luntaya Acheik from Myanmar and a metallic zig zag pattern (origin unknown).

You can see all of Bethan’s patterns and more on instagram @patternportraitspodcast

‘The Wiggle World’ - The PATTERN PORTRAIT print artwork to accompany Bethan’s interview and featuring the patterns we discuss is available to buy now at www.laurengodfrey.co.uk

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Lauren Godfrey chats with artist David Batchelor, about the legacy of the Bauhaus, gilding tortoises and pattern as a cardinal sin.

David Batchelor is an artist well known for his sculptural and light based work that explores his experience of colour within a modern urban environment, and historical conceptions of colour within Western culture. David has exhibited worldwide with recent solo exhibitions in Sao Paolo, London and Edinburgh. He has delivered large scale commissions for London St Pancras Station and Art on the Underground. His book Chromophobia was published in 2000 and is a staple of art school reading lists worldwide.

David’s work delights in colour and shape, playing with the edges, the reflections and the shadows, drawing attention to the underside, the reverse or the back of a sculptural form, testing and flexing the parameters of our relationship to colour and the myriad ways we experience it.

David and I met earlier this year when I was tasked with making a series of beaded works on his behalf for his solo exhibition at Cecilia Brunson Projects in London. Though I was already a fan of his work, upon visiting his studio I discovered a cocoon of colour and a party of patterned references beyond what I could have imagined. We bonded over a shared love of colour charts for zips and getting giddy about chains dripping with perspex swatches!

David has chosen a delicious selection of patterns with a global reach including a Mondrian painting (Composition with Grid IX) from 1919, an Anni Albers work on paper from 1967, a 1965 quilt by Sue Willie Seltzer of the Gee’s Bend quilt makers and a Zulu beadwork date unknown. 

You can see all of David’s patterns and more on instagram @patternportraitspodcast

‘Purple Punctuation’ - The PATTERN PORTRAIT print artwork to accompany David’s interview and featuring the patterns we discuss is available to buy now at www.laurengodfrey.co.uk

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Lauren Godfrey chats with artist Zadie Xa, about alchemy and conjuring through pattern, oddness over evenness and Korean Folklore.

Zadie Xa is an artist working across painting, sculpture and performance with recent presentations at Thaddeus Ropac in Paris, Hauser and Wirth in LA and The Whitechapel Gallery in London. Originally from Vancouver, Canada, Zadie explores notions of homeland and diaspora through the metaphor of water and interspecies communication. Zadie has an MA in painting from The Royal College of Art and a BFA from The Emily Carr Institute of Design in Vancouver.

Her work often takes the form of textile constructions resembling garments or kimonos, heavily worked with quilting, appliqué and complex structural elements featuring recurring motifs such as the conch shell, the Yin Yang symbol, knives and kimchi. Performances have featured huge Orca whales and costumes sewn from bleach dyed denim in aqueous patterns of undulating water.

I am totally entranced by Zadie’s work and the way that pattern weaves its way into every element whether it’s a vast patchwork shelter, housing delicately rendered paintings or a gown hanging from the ceiling, poised with a pair of platform shoes resembling cabbages.

Zadie has chosen a vibrant patchwork of patterns including a Korean Bojagi wrapping (date unknown), Sonia Delaunay’s ‘Simultaneous Dress’ from 1913, a pattern of her own - Kimchi Rites and Kitchen Rituals, 2022, a Christopher Kane flower stamped dress from Spring/Summer 2012 and a Mori Yuzan wave drawing circa 1903.

You can see all of Zadie’s patterns and more on instagram @patternportraitspodcast

‘Magic Motif’ - The PATTERN PORTRAIT print artwork to accompany Zadie’s interview and featuring the patterns we discuss is available to buy now at www.laurengodfrey.co.uk

Image of Zadie Xa by Benedict Johnson

References:

Gee’s Bend Quilt Makers

Legacy Russell

The New Bend Exhibition at Hauser and Wirth

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Lauren Godfrey chats with artist Navine G Dossos, about wearing painting, pattern as lexicon and the connections between geometry and philosophy.

This episode was recorded on the occasion of her solo exhibition ‘Riviera’ at Devonshire Collective’s VOLT gallery in Eastbourne.

Navine is an artist living between London and Aegina in Greece working predominantly in painting and increasingly in the public realm. She has a keen interest in pattern and through her work explores geometric abstraction, merging traditions coming from Islamic art with the algorithmic nature of the interconnected world we live in.

Navine studied History of Art at Cambridge University, Arabic at Kuwait University, Islamic Art at the Prince’s School of Traditional Art in London, and holds an MA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art & Design.

Her exhibition at Volt is a commission led by Towner Eastbourne in collaboration with Devonshire Collective and presents a new collaboratively designed patterned textile featuring a language of symbols developed from the surrounding area of Eastbourne and the people that live there. The textile is available for free for visitors to take a 2 metre length with which to make a garment or furnishing, thus disseminating the pattern across the town, country and potentially the globe. A truly public artwork it also manifests as a series of awnings on nearby shopfronts, peppering the town with pattern.

Navine has chosen a beautiful palette of patterns including a Raoul Dufy textile from 1920, an Islamic Geometric pattern, A Japanese wave pattern, the Photoshop transparency grid and two patterns by the Bloomsbury Group; ’Pamela’ by Vanessa Bell / Duncan Grant and ‘West Wind’ by Duncan Grant.

You can see all of Navine’s patterns and more on instagram @patternportraitspodcast

‘Monumental Intimacy’ - The PATTERN PORTRAIT print artwork to accompany Navine’s interview and featuring the patterns we discuss is available to buy now at www.laurengodfrey.co.uk

References:

Agnes Martin

Charleston House

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Lauren Godfrey chats with Romy St Clair, one half of the coolest florists in London, SAGE flowers, about collaboration, the similarities between flowers and clubbing and being a recovering minimalist.

Together with Iona Mathieson, Romy has grown a phenomenal creative business, making playful bouquets and incredible floral installations. Storming onto the scene only a few years ago with a tiny budget and a few stems in a carpark in Peckham they have since collaborated with brands including Gucci, Fenty, Frieze and Nike to name but a handful. They set up an initiative called FutureFlowers which offers funded placements to diversify and decolonise floristry and they have written a book called The Art of Starting in which they share their secrets to success.

Not only are the SAGE girls amazing businesswomen and florists but also impeccable dressers and bring pattern and fun into all they do! Romy has chosen a beautiful selection of sentimental patterns including a fiery Louisa Ballou dress worn for their book launch, a monogrammed Ralph Lauren hoodie belonging to her little boy, a Chunni she wore for her engagement party, an inherited sari and the happiest flower bag for Louis Vuitton by Takashi Murakami.

You can see all of Romy’s patterns and more now on instagram @patternportraitspodcast

‘Flowers This Way' - The PATTERN PORTRAIT print artwork to accompany Romy’s interview and featuring the patterns we discuss is available to buy now at www.laurengodfrey.co.uk

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Lauren Godfrey chats with artist Madeleine Pledge about stripes as borders, patterns as graphs and Virginia Woolf’s concept of frock consciousness.

Madeleine Pledge is an artist working sculpturally, employing a myriad of processes including knitting, sewing, casting, ceramics and printmaking. Her work stretches and contorts, leaves a physical impression, can be worn or perhaps has been. It wraps itself around and loops through, balancing and poising. Her work revels in material elements of fashion and from the history of design, reworking and reinterpreting them as a means to understand systems of production, power and authorship.

Madeleine’s take on pattern is a really broad and conceptual one, the patterns she has chosen are closely linked with her work and include childhood polkadot dungarees, a stretch knit stripe from a photograph by artist Sylvie Fleury, a pair of op art and binary code inspired balaclavas made by Madeleine after the artist Rosemarie Trockel, zig zag stripes by Missoni, and a trio of striped knitted garments by JW Anderson.

You can see all of Madeleine’s patterns and more on instagram @patternportraitspodcast

‘Maximum Baggage’ - The PATTERN PORTRAIT print artwork to accompany Madeleine’s interview and featuring the patterns we discuss is available to buy now at www.laurengodfrey.co.uk

References:

Christine Keeler chair https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O76201/the-keeler-chair-chair-unknown/

Jade Monserrat https://www.bosseandbaum.com/artists/jade-montserrat/

Ann Anlin Cheng - Second Skin, Josephine Baker and the Modern Surface https://global.oup.com/academic/product/second-skin-9780197748381?cc=gb&lang=en&

Charlie Porter - Bring No Clothes https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/453043/bring-no-clothes-by-porter-charlie/9781802061147

Bridget Riley - original article from 1965 - https://www.artnews.com/art-news/retrospective/bridget-riley-perception-is-the-medium-1965-12638/

Alice Channer https://alicechanner.com/

Weaponised Glamour at Case Study Project Space - https://www.madeleinepledge.com/weaponized-glamour

Superstructure (public image), 2023 at Eastbourne ALIVE https://www.madeleinepledge.com/superstructure-public-image

Stretch, Flatlands Projects https://www.madeleinepledge.com/stretch

Isa Genzken’s jacket https://www.madeleinepledge.com/the-weather-garden

Sarah Shepherd - knitter of the balaclavas https://www.sarahshepherd.com/

Madeleine’s Pictures for Palestine print https://www.picturesforpalestine.com/photographs/madeleine-pledge

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Zoé is director of the well loved Chisenhale Gallery, a gem in the London gallery scene as a space that champions creativity and helps facilitate artists making new work on a grand scale. Before joining Chisenhale in 2020, she worked on exhibitions, research and collections at The Hayward, The V and A, and the TATE where she co curated the exhibition Soul of A Nation: Art In The Age of Black Power which went on to tour internationally. She also curated Cathy Wilkes’ presentation at the 2019 British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale and was a Turner Prize judge in 2021. Zoe undertook a Masters in History of Design at the Royal College of Art alongside the V and A, focusing on representations of Blackness in Vogue Magazine in the UK, US and France.

Zoé has chosen a veritable feast of pattern including striped sweatpants from Erykah Badu’s world market, a Vlisco Dutch Wax hall of fame, A Stella Jean dress with typewriters all over it, a floral Versace monogram silk, a Moroccan Boucheruite rug and a Viviers Studio ostrich claw napkin! You can see all of Zoé’s patterns and more on instagram @patternportraitspodcast

‘Caszh With Zhuzh’ - The PATTERN PORTRAIT print artwork to accompany Zoé’s interview and featuring the patterns we discuss is available to buy now at www.laurengodfrey.co.uk

References:

Badu world market

Getty internship

Kaye Spilker / Sharon Takeda - Curator / Head of Costume at Textiles at LACMA

Rudi Gernreich Pubikini 1985

Claire McCardell

Gilbert Adrian

Tom Ford Gucci jeans

Vlisco - dutch wax

Cauleen Smith

Yinka Shonibare - Dysfunctional Family (1999) / Sir Foster Cunliffe, Playing (2007)

Njideka Akunyili Crosby

Stella Jean

NAFAD

Lisa Left Eye Lopes - Hat 2 Da Back

House Party - Kid n play pool ball pyjamas

Lisanne Viviers

Anthea Hamilton Loewe wallpaper

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Lauren Godfrey chats with artist and filmmaker Michelle Williams Gamaker about costume as a nonverbal communicator in film, pattern stopping her in her tracks and the double echo of intergenerational clothes swapping.

Michelle is an artist known for her ambitious films that enact fictional revenge, placing marginalised voices at the centre of the narrative. Her epic film work ‘Theives’ was presented at South London Gallery in 2023, Dundee Contemporary Arts and Bluecoat in Liverpool in 2024. Michelle’s work responds to films watched during childhood, unpacked and seen anew over time, which raise important conversations about race, representation, identity and agency. Michelle’s work has won many awards including jointly winning the Jarman Award in 2020.

Pattern and colour are intrinsic in her world from costumes and sets to the clothes Michelle wears herself. A pair of her striped boots have even been immortalised in the work of another artist, Madeline Pledge who I am also interviewing this season!

Michelle has chosen some very special patterns, a polkadot and houndstooth from C&A passed down from her mum, a Kantha quilt kimono and Shalwar kameez adapted for wearing at her exhibition opening, a satin dress thrifted in Amsterdam and my personal favourite, an epic Paisley crossed with tiger print shirt by Pencaldi and B!

You can see all of Michelle's patterns and more on instagram @patternportraitspodcast

The PATTERN PORTRAIT print artwork to accompany Michelle’s interview and featuring the patterns we discuss is available to buy now at www.laurengodfrey.co.uk

https://www.instagram.com/m.williams.gamaker/

References:

Thief of Baghdad 1940 - produced by Alexander Korda and directed by Michael Powell, Ludwig Berger and Tim Whelan, with additional contributions by William Cameron Menzies and Korda brothers Vincent and Zoltán.

The Thief of Bagdad 1924 - directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Douglas Fairbanks. 

Anna May Wong

Sabu

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You’ll probably know Amber from her very special TV series A Stitch In Time in which Amber explores the lives of historical figures through the clothes they wore, or perhaps for her regular appearances as the fashion historian on The Great British Sewing Bee! She is unmissable with impeccable dress sense and an iconic red bob, usually topped off with a colourful turban.

Amber has chosen patterns from many different sources, from 1960’s Anaglypta wallpaper, an Uzbek Ikat tunic bought in Istanbul, a leopard print carpet, a bespoke leopard print featuring her own silhouette by her partner Rob Flowers, a bedsheet from the Chinese Cultural revolution and a London Transport moquette from the London Country Buses.

Amber hosts her own podcast ‘Cloth Cultures’ for The British Textile Biennial which is a beautiful exploration of movement, migration and making through cloth. Her stunning exhibition ‘The Fabric of Democracy’ was at The Fashion and Textiles Museum in London earlier in 2024, exploring printed propaganda textiles over more than two centuries. It was a truly remarkable show really driving home the idea of pattern and fabric as codes and communicators - if ever we were in doubt about the power of pattern, this show dispelled it!

You can see all of Amber’s patterns and more on instagram @patternportraitspodcast

The PATTERN PORTRAIT print artwork to accompany Amber’s interview and featuring the patterns we discuss is available to buy now at www.laurengodfrey.co.uk

References / Links:

Bar américain at Zedel, London

Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood director of the Textile Research Centre in Leiden

Enid Marx- mentioned in relation to the London Transport Moquettes

Lauren Elkin article about textiles

Josef frank - Italian dinner

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I’m Lauren Godfrey and each week I chat with fellow pattern lovers about a few of the patterns special to them.

Each guest picks a handful of their favourite patterns and these open up conversation about the their wider world of work and life and lead us down avenues of tartan and passageways of paisley with a little diversion in a floral forest!

Because it’s such a visual feast in an audible format, I’ve made prints to accompany each episode, a kind of undulating landscape of pattern on pattern, capturing the guests personality through the patterns they choose. You can buy the prints through my website, www.laurengodfrey.co.uk and this is a great way to support the podcast too if you’d like to hear more!

You can also follow @patternportraitspodcast on instagram to see the patterns we discuss and clips from the interviews.

This season is full of juicy nuggets of wisdom from some amazing pattern addicts, I hope you enjoy joining me on an odyssey of pattern as this season unfurls!

Season 2 of Pattern Portraits, coming soon!

With clips from interviews with Amber Butchart and Zoé Whitley, music by Alex Brenchley

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Lauren Godfrey chats with artist Jacqueline Poncelet on the occasion of her exhibition ‘In The Making’ at MIMA, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art.

We chat about intelligent risk taking, the importance of travel for Jacqui and the visual beefy soup of the world around us!

Artist Jacqueline Poncelet graduated from an MA in ceramics from The Royal College of Art in 1972 and garnered a broad following in the international ceramics scene in the 70s and 80s, Jacqueline is an artist whose career spans 50 years and now explores ceramics, painting, sculpture and textiles as well as large scale public commissions. Her work varies from tiny and hand held to vast in scale, wrapping Edgware Road Underground station in a symphony of patterned vitreous enamel in 2012.

Pattern is at the crux of all she makes, whether it’s subtly impressed into bone china forms, spliced together in carpet swatches covering the floor, or woven into tactile blankets depicting the seasonal colour shifts of the hills of South Wales.

This episode of Pattern Portraits is in collaboration with MIMA, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art which is part of the School of Arts & Creative Industries at Teesside University. Jacqueline Poncelet’s solo exhibition ‘In The Making’ is on view there until 23rd June 2024. I highly recommend a visit, this stunning show envelops the breadth of Jacqueline’s practice over the past 50 years. Taking a thematic approach, it presents new reflections on work from different eras of Poncelet’s practice. This exhibition is her largest to date and is supported by Freelands Foundation and The Henry Moore Foundation. MIMA and Jacqui won the prestigious Freelands Award in 2021 which recognises the work of a midcareer woman artist who has not yet received the acclaim their work deserves.

I urge you to go and see the show and you will be rewarded with a feast of pattern!

Jacqui has chosen patterns across many forms, a painting - Edouard Vuillard, Interior, Mother and Sister of the Artist, 1893, a ceramic platter by Janice Tchalenko, a Japanese Kimono acquired whilst in Tokyo and a Welsh coat.

You can see all these patterns and more on instagram @patternportraitspodcast

The PATTERN PORTRAIT print artwork to accompany Jacqui’s interview and featuring the patterns we discuss is available to buy now at www.laurengodfrey.co.uk and via the MIMA shop.

Season Two will be coming soon, follow @patternportraitspodcast to stay in the loop!

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Lauren Godfrey chats with broadcaster and presenter Gemma Cairney about the eroticism of everyday life, pattern as code and living instinctively.

Gemma is best known for her work with BBC radio, and a myriad of TV appearances from hosting Glastonbury for the BBC to presenting the public art competition show, Landmark for Sky Arts. Gemma is a published author with another book coming out imminently called The Immortal Sisterhood. Gemma is deeply and passionately involved in the art world, she is on the board of Jupiter Art Land Foundation and the Edinburgh Art Festival helping steer the ship of exciting art in Scotland and beyond.

Gemma has a truly joyful approach to dressing, always appearing in fabulously playful patterns and colours, often sourced from independent designers and sustainable brands. I’ve long admired her buoyant presence on my screen and in my ears so it’s my absolute pleasure to chat pattern, colour and life with her!

Gemma has chosen patterns on garments including a dress from a roadside stall in Ghana, a handmade cotton scarf from Ethiopia, a vintage 1980’s dress, a selection of crochet items - a bikini from Jamaica and a top and pouch made by Katie Jones, and a sarong bought from the New York City Opera thrift shop. You can see all these patterns and more on instagram @patternportraitspodcast

The PATTERN PORTRAIT print artwork to accompany Gemma’s interview and featuring the patterns we discuss is available to buy now at www.laurengodfrey.co.uk

There will be an exhibition of the artworks soon to be announced!

This is the final episode of Season One but Season Two will be coming soon, follow @patternportraitspodcast to stay in the loop!

Other things we discuss:

Gemma’s first book - Open, A Toolkit for How Magic and Messed Up Life Can Be

The Sound Odyssey for Radio 4

Some of the 12 women that feature in Gemma’s forthcoming book The Immortal Sisterhood - Pharaoh Hatshepsut, Betty Davis, Pamela Coleman Smith, Audre Lorde and Grace Jones.

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Lauren Godfrey chats with artist and designer Hannah Sabapathy about patterns as a key to other histories, the jewel-like colours of her Grandma’s saris and collaging as a process of creating conversations.

Hannah Sabapathy is based in Dundee in Scotland and leads Studio Plica, a studio that explores colour, materials and the politics of pattern.

She makes beautiful things, tender, intricate, and precise, peppered with pattern and with a seductive tactility from jewellery to furniture and soon to be large scale enamel panels. All drawing from patterns and their rich and complex heritage.

Hannah is a currently part of the first cohort of 20/20, an initiative by University of the Arts London to support the careers of a new generation of diverse artists. Hannah is exploring the archive at The Harris Museum in Preston and looking at de-colonising and unpacking the patterned textiles in their collection.

Hannah has chosen a stunning selection of patterns some from her home and family and some from the collections she’s been exploring. Including a ‘Mushroo’ fabric from Hyderabad, a 1930’s quilt from her mum’s collection, one of her Grandma’s silk saris, Kolams drawn by her Grandma, an endpaper from a Mark Pawson book, a Japanese Lacquerware tray and a fan from 1885 in the Harris Collection. Images of all these patterns will be posted on @patternportraitspodcast instagram.

The PATTERN PORTRAIT print artwork to accompany Hannah’s interview and featuring the patterns we discuss is available to buy now at www.laurengodfrey.co.uk

There will be an exhibition of the artworks soon to be announced!

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New episodes out each Wednesday!

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Welcome to Episode Six of PATTERN PORTRAITS!

Lauren Godfrey chats with designer and business owner Karen Mabon about delving into the Barbie archive, the aesthetics of Grease 2 and the complexities of owning an eponymous brand.

Karen makes pyjamas, scarves, swimwear and more in the most joyful, playful patterns of your dreams! Think tamagotchis, cats in pumpkin costumes and ski bunnies, foxes scavenging in bins and chocolate factories to rival Willy Wonka! If you can dream it, she’s done it… Even if you can’t dream it she’s done it!

Karen has collaborated with cultural icons from Agatha Christie to the Queen, and most recently, our true Queen, Barbie!! Her clothes and accessories have been worn by celebrities world wide including Jessica Alba, Selma Blair and Anna from Frozen herself, Kristen Bell!

Full disclosure - I’m supremely lucky to be able to call Karen one of my best friends, I’ve been there for the highs and lows from the late night trade shows to the thrills of movie premiers, we even collaborated on a pop up swimwear shop in Lisbon a few years ago. I’m excited to finally be able to ask her the hard-hitting pattern based questions on everybody’s lips!

Karen has chosen patterns on garments by Petit Bateau, Burberry and her own brand, Karen Mabon.

The PATTERN PORTRAIT print artwork to accompany Karen’s interview and featuring the patterns we discuss is available to buy now at www.laurengodfrey.co.uk

There will be an exhibition of the artworks soon to be announced!

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New episodes out each Wednesday!

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Lauren Godfrey chats with stylist Dr Manrutt Wongkaew about the power of education, dressing as therapy and turning up the dimmer switch on your own light.

Manrutt is a stylist, art director and choreographer as well as a senior lecturer at London College of Fashion. His approach to colour and pattern is truly admirable, you think you’ve seen pattern on pattern, this is pattern on pattern on pattern to the power of 10! His patterns are playful, fun and warm, oozing generosity and magnetism, inviting conversations and connections through his creativity.

Manrutt has also worked in art therapy, with a great understanding of how creativity is linked to our wellbeing. So I’m thrilled to have him on the podcast to talk about all things pattern and joy!

Manrutt has chosen patterns on garments by Charles Jeffrey Loverboy, Cuscus the cuckoos, Pleats Please Issey Miyake, Lazy Oaf x Laura Callghan, Marni x Uniqlo, Raf Simons customised by Catrin Williams and an item from Bangkok weekend market.

We also talk about how Manny is a member of Survivors UK and works with Loving Men.

He references Edda Gimnes as his ‘pattern that got away’.

The PATTERN PORTRAIT print artwork to accompany Manrutt’s interview and featuring the patterns we discuss is available to buy now at www.laurengodfrey.co.uk

There will be an exhibition of the artworks soon to be announced!

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Lauren Godfrey chats with author Bethany Rutter about dressing fictional characters, the unavoidable influence of Trinny and Susannah and memorising Agatha Christie novels.

A podcaster herself, Bethany co-hosts the literary podcast What Page Are You On? with fellow writer Alice Slater. She has published 3 novels with a 4th and 5th coming out in 2024 and has been blogging about fashion for many years. She has used her platform to challenge the fashion industry on it’s shortcomings regarding inclusivity. She is never far from a bold pattern or a bright colour and is a prolific maker, often to be found crocheting or sculpting accessories and garments.

She has designed clothing collections for plus size fashion brand Navabi and even co-designed her own emerald green gem of a wedding dress!

Bethany has chosen patterns from garments by Navabi, Marimekko, Wray, Batsheva X Laura Ashley and Karen Mabon.

The PATTERN PORTRAIT print artwork to accompany Bethany’s interview and featuring the patterns we discuss is available to buy now at www.laurengodfrey.co.uk

There will be an exhibition of the artworks soon to be announced!

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New episodes out each Wednesday!

Music by Alex Brenchley

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Lauren Godfrey chats with illustrator, accessory and prop maker Rosy Nicholas about Garfield roller skates, dressing up as Madonna and the power clothes have to transport you.

Rosy has extensive experience of making patterns herself having done brand collaborations with Jigsaw, Estée Lauder, Vans and Lazy Oaf as well as making an epic Grace Jones and Keith Haring inspired Mural for the now closed Ace Hotel in London.

Rosy and I got to know each other through strange circumstances - when my partner Alex Brenchley was diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2021, a friend put us in touch with Rosy who has been going through treatment for bowel cancer too. She has been a tremendous source of support and comfort for us and Alex and Rosy have formed a strong bond through their shared experiences.

Content warning: We discuss Rosy’s cancer diagnosis and treatment in this episode.

Rosy has chosen patterns by Versace, NAF NAF and Elegance Paris, as well as some vintage items with no labels.

The PATTERN PORTRAIT print artwork to accompany Rosy’s interview and featuring the patterns we discuss is available to buy now at www.laurengodfrey.co.uk

There will be an exhibition of the artworks soon to be announced!

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New episodes out each Wednesday!

Music by Alex Brenchley.

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Lauren Godfrey chats with artist and illustrator Mark Hearld about rhythms in patterns, the lack of shocking pink at Kettles Yard and ways of engineering randomness.

Mark has an infectious enthusiasm for objects and ephemera, art and artefacts. He has a self-confessed Magpie Eye, honing in on the details and the fleeting moments and running with them into a creative collage of pattern and expression.

Working across collage, drawing, painting and printmaking, Mark’s work can been seen far and wide from children’s books to furnishing fabrics to leather marquetry handbags. He has collaborated with fashion houses and interiors brands to create patterns for adorning both your home and your body. His own exceptional home has been featured twice in World of Interiors and his book Raucous Invention, The Joy of Making, came out in 2022.

Mark has chosen patterns by Ben Nicholson, Peggy Angus, Comme Des Garçons, Turnbull and Asser, Mark Hearld for A State of Nature and a chapan from Uzbekistan. We discuss many more patterns in the interview.

The PATTERN PORTRAIT print artwork to accompany Mark's inteview and featuring the patterns we discuss is available to buy now at www.laurengodfrey.co.uk

There will be an exhibition of the artworks soon to be announced!

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Music by Alex Brenchley.

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Lauren Godfrey chats with artist and illustrator Julie Verhoeven about patterns special to her, her time with John Galliano, striking a pose in a velvet trouser suit aged 5 and tending to the Frieze art fair toilets dressed in a tabard.

Once met, never forgotten, Julie Verhoeven is a unique force in the art and fashion world, having inspired countless students in her role as a tutor in Fashion at Central Saint Martins, a post she has held for 26 years. She has collaborated with many fashion brands including Chloe, Marc Jacobs, Louis Vuitton and Mulberry and rose to prominence in the noughties with fashion illustration.

Julie has chosen mostly vintage garments, one by 'La Coleccion Judith Roberts', all the rest are presumed homemade.

The PATTERN PORTRAIT print to accompany Julie's inteview and featuring the patterns we discuss is available now at www.laurengodfrey.co.uk

There will be an exhibition of the artworks soon to be announced!

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New episodes out each Wednesday!

Music by Alex Brenchley.

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Each episode I speak with a fellow pattern lover in the creative industries about their relationship to pattern and colour and how surrounding themselves with pattern serves as a kind of armour.

Each guest has selected some textiles special to them which we will discuss, using the patterns to delve into their stories.

I have also created an accompanying artwork, an abstract ‘Pattern Portrait’ of the sitter through their patterns made from Jesmonite inlaid with perspex and brass. And a resulting print will be available to purchase.

There will be an exhibition of the artworks and the prints are available on my website. laurengodfrey.co.uk

Follow @laurengodfreystudio and @patternportraitspodcast on instagram to stay in the loop!

New episodes each Wednesday!

Music by Alex Brenchley.

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