‘My Hearts Garden’ Textile Collection by Susanna April
With a new season, brings a new featured designer of the month! We couldn’t be more excited to announce that our next featured artist of The Designer Project will be none other than the amazing Susanna April!
Susanna is an intuitive abstract artist driven by emotion and feeling in her art practice. Her pieces are created from multi-layered acrylic artworks which sing with detail and depth. She lives in Brisbane, sunny QLD, with her two kiddos and husband and loves a good day at the beach.
Her ‘My Hearts Garden ’ collection is vibrant and full of colour, the perfect patterns to bring art to life in your textiles! What’s more fantastic is that the whole collection has been made available in our Fabric Shop online, meaning each of the designs can be printed onto any of our stock fabrics. Below we’ve shared a bit about each of the designs and the types of projects we think they’d be great for so keep reading!
‘My Hearts Garden’ is a vibrant, fresh print with lots of detail, layering and brush strokes. It features pink brush strokes mixed together with teal and green.
‘My Hearts Garden’ would be perfect for any fashion project! We especially love it for pyjamas
‘Pink Terrazzo’ is a wonderfully detailed small scale print with clear brush strokes and abstract shapes. As you can probably tell by the name, this print has the sweetest pink colour palette.
‘Pink Terrazzo’ would be fabulous for fashion accessory projects! Think Tote Bags, Scarves or Bucket Hats!
‘Treasures Above’ is a wonderfully detailed small scale print with clear brush strokes and abstract shapes. We love the combination of Pink and Neutral shades in this design.
‘Treasures Above’ would look amazing on some custom cushion covers for table linen! Any Home & Interior project really!
‘Gardens Alive’ is a vibrant, fresh print with lots of detail, layering and brush strokes. The design features wonderful shades of green and teal with pops of white.
‘Gardens Alive’ is another wonderful print that would work perfectly for Home & Interior projects!
‘Let the Heart Dance’ is a beautiful and vibrant multi-layered, pink abstract print created from an original acrylic painting on canvas. The detail of the brush strokes really make this design stand out!
‘Let the Heart Dance’ works absolutely perfectly for any and all fashion project! Summer dresses and skirts, silky pyjamas!
‘Many Waters’ is a beautifully complex design created to captivate your eyes with its delicious swirling brush stroke, in this divine teal shade.
‘Many Waters’ would be amazing for a wide range of project; not only fashion garments but also home and interior projects such as Tea Towels!
‘Desert Dawn’ is a beautiful, neutral print layered with lots of brush stroke and paint detail. It’s colour palette is reminiscent of the desert with warm tones and soft pinks.
The cosy vibes of ‘Desert Dawn’ make it perfect for homewares such as cushion covers, blankets and bedding and maybe some fashion garments such as scarves!
We truly hope you love these beautiful collections as much as we have, and can’t wait to see what you create- the ideas are endless! Each of Susanna’s designs can be found in our Fabric Shop online.