Elsa Dugaro
I am a print designer, with a strong love of colour, nature and interiors.
I am a print designer, with a strong love of colour, nature and interiors.
My project focuses on the elements and colours found within the forest that neighbours my childhood country house in France. This collection puts the focus on reoccurring weeds, that despite being considered as such, I consider a beautiful and elemental part of this forest, as well as the different trees that populate this forest.
Sharing a border with a forest creates the opportunity for many forest plants to take root within the garden. Due to their random placement, we are unable to let most of them grow as they would in the forest. This is done in an attempt to keep order within the garden. These man-made decisions are the bridge between the wild mindset of nature, and the straight lines made by man. This collection aims to merge the notions of order and lines with unruliness wilderness.
When creating this collection, I tried to use lines both as straight, even lines, and wild ones. Within the collection, many designs appear straight and orderly, as a nod to the man-made lines that we create; such as forest roads. Similarly, the single-line drawings that I have also used throughout have the aspect of unruliness to them as a nod to the wild spirit of nature.
I greatly enjoy painting in watercolour and wanted to incorporate this medium in this collection.
The use of watercolour specifically, is reminiscent of the ponds and lakes that populate the neighbouring forest.
Zoom of digital Single-Line drawing originally made by hand before being scanned and arranged with the others in order to create a seamless repeat design.
This image shows me using the sewing machine to create a single-line design overlapping the print.
This was done as a way to merge mediums, therefore mixing the lines of the branches with the wilderness of the single-line stitching.
Handmade painting made into two layer print.
Digital design, made from watercolour paintings.
Single-line drawing of wildflowers, digitised and made into a repeat design.
Single-line drawing, digitised and printed onto wallpaper.
Scan of watercolour painting made into a repeat, printed onto wallpaper.
Single-line repeat print printed in pigment paste on coloured wallpaper.
Two layer pigment paste print, with overlapping free-hand embroidery.
Pigment print repeat onto mixed fabric.
Two layer repeat print
The design and this tartan is inspired from the different field lines found in rural Scotland.
Print onto Wool.
Colour-way 2
Print onto Wool
This design depicts the different shapes and colours that form the different hills found in the Scottish highlands.
Print onto Wool.
Watercolour paintings of heather, scanned and made into a repeat pattern.
Digital print onto Natural fabric.
Colour-way 3.
Print on Wool.
Single-line drawings of surrounding sheep, made into a print.
Print on Wool.
Kelling Designs – Assistant – 2022
Interior design and home staging company
3 months placement
Amanda Kelly – Assistant – 2023
Print designer
6 months placement
Arlettie – Retail – 2020-2023