Ingrid’s textile design’s are about celebrating the home with colour and personality.
For Ingrid, it all began with a screen printing course more than twenty years ago at the then Auckland Technical Institute. With her fingers in the paint pots and pasting paper cut-outs onto silk screens, Ingrid felt this was far more her calling than the BA she was doing at the time. She pursued this new passion at The Quarry in Whangarei, where an inspiring tutor encouraged her to put ink to fabric.Ingrid’s textile design’s are about celebrating the home with colour and personality.
Graphic and vibrant pohutukawa and kowhai flowers bloomed. With more cutting and pasting—and the occasional hand-drawing—stylised native ferns, karaka, and pukeko appeared. Her abstract designs grew bigger and bolder, taking on a distinct, modernist, almost Scandinavian flavour. Concerned about quality and sustainability, Ingrid uses a local printing company and sewers to make her products. She strongly defends New Zealand made. She believes that New Zealanders should be more selective about what they buy if they’re to preserve their uniqueness. Join Ingrid on one of her Flexi Conference workshops and be inspired and/or discover ideas to enhance your teaching or surroundings.Learn the basics of screen printing creating a hand-cut stencil, printing – colour and design, and overlay printing (great for yr 10-13 applied design tee shirts).
You will also have the chance to get a ‘taster’ of digital stencilling using the cri – cut machine.
We grew up outside, connected with the nature and believe that our kids should go outside too.
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We grew up outside, connected with the nature and believe that our kids should go outside too.
Here, at Field-based STEM, we are all working as a big team. Tap into our collective expertise.
"Unlike scientific community programmes that are expensive and require lots of investment, field work is done by individuals and is accessible to anyone. The skills gained during field work open up a huge area for everyone undertaking it."
