Throughout this journey that Holley & Gill has taken me on, I’ve found myself with several newly acquired passions. For me, a passion is when you are suddenly no longer aware of what time it is, what you need to be doing and where you need to be.
It’s happened before when I’ve been blogging or planning designs, the times escapes me and I’m not bothered one bit about it. But this specific passion made my heart race and my creativity soar to heights I’d never felt before. It began on a simple sunny morning, our bedroom became our make-shift studio for the day. I began to style our shoot for our very first catalogue and the rest became a blur of giddiness and excitement.
Interior styling is what creates and evokes that emotion. A ray of sun coming from an open window, a chair slightly turned towards the lens, or even a “just tossed there” item can intensify an otherwise ordinary room. It creates a persona, you begin to see the story and it leaves you wanting to know more. It definitely left me with wanting more.
It is truly astounding when your original vision can branch out to create so many other outlets to explore and learn from. I’m extremely grateful for this ride and cannot wait to see what comes next.
What new passions have you discovered and how did they come about?
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Both sides of the family were and still are artistic and creative. My Great-Grandfather was an architect in England and designed things like confessional boxes with designs so intricate you didn’t know where to look first. I also remember my Mum’s drawings she did when she was a little girl, I would be so envious of her talent not really knowing she had passed it on to me yet until I was in college and completed my Fine Art and Illustration degrees.
There are many aspects of being artistic that I enjoy and feel so blessed to have. I’m able to envision compositions, layouts and colour schemes without even laying them out first. Concepts for new designs tend to come quite quickly when I need to draw one up. On the flip side, design is what my mind sees everywhere without my eyes even acknowledging it. I can drive Conrad crazy with this as my brain will go into self-scanning mode as we wander and he can see that I’m not necessarily taking in our environment, more so the patterns, colours and design that make it.
I try some days to only take in a space as a whole and not focus on the details. It’s tough, but with so many beautiful and inspiring landscapes, I only want to learn how they become exactly that. To me, the world is a visual learning ground where I can keep up with trends as well as focus on what works so that once a project comes up where I can apply these theories, I’ll definitely be confident in my choices.
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