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Bethan Laura Wood
Portrait by Mark Cocksedge
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Bethan Laura Wood is known for her innovative and playful approach to design.
After completing an MA in Design Products at the Royal College of Art in 2009, British artist and designer Bethan Laura Wood began exploring the relationships we make with objects in our everyday lives. A pioneer of innovative objects, her distinctive visual lexicon is characterized by bold colour and experimental forms.
She has collaborated with a wide range of clients and companies, including Valextra, Kvadrat, CC-Tapis, Tolix Peter Pilotto, Hermès and Dior. Her innovative approach has earned her widespread recognition and her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums around the world, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, Swiss Institute New York; Daelim Museum, Seoul; Museum of Contemporary Art, MOT, Tokyo; ICA London and the Design Museum, London.
Bethan’s ‘Crestata’ print series brings a new medium to our range. Her fascination with bold colours and unique materials characterises this work. Inspired by a love of houseplants, she depicts small crestata succulents. During lockdown, Wood took to drawing her collection of crestata. The captivating shapes and movement transformed into colourful ink drawings. Now, they are produced as exclusive, limited edition prints that conjure magical living calligraphy.
The intimacy of everyday life and the passing of time all play into these works, along with influences from Japanese woodcuts and the illustrations of British Aestheticist Aubrey Beardsley. Working mainly with warm hues, Bethan achieves a sensory quality through the method of lino printing and the texture is enhanced by the use of delicate Japanese Takeo Tela paper.