Georgina Rambton is a respected textile designer. Her work has sold to many leading international companies. Drawn to North Wales by the diverse coastline, she used a caravan studio on Anglesey for many years. Recently she bought a house and moved with her family to Red Wharf Bay.

Away from the pressures of the city she has found more time for her work as a painter. Taking her inspiration from water and the sea she describes her resulting work as a dance, an ebb and flow of inner and outer tides. Her work is composed of sounds, smells, tastes, poetry, knowledge gleaned from literature and of course the visual stimulus of the sea.

"If I were asked to describe what kind of paintings I make I would have to respond that I try to make tangible my poetic response to the great mother of life - the sea. When painting it is unusual for me to have a 'recipe' worked out beforehand - I work intuitively. That is not to say that my paintings do not relate to each other - I always work on a theme or a concept. The work gains its own impetus and follows on from where the last painting left off."

Her latest paintings are a series based on reflections and energy. They are of an average scale, around 40 inches square, and are painted in acrylic with pencil on paper.

Curriculum Vitae

Home Furnishings/ Textile Designer Collections and Commissions

Designed three major wall coverings and furnishings collections for Monkwell Fabrics: Fortuna (1991), Kilim (1992). Cara(1993). Designed and developed from initial conception the fabrics, wallcoverings and bookcovers, including producing all finished artwork.

Designed ranges for other major companies such as Anna French Surfaces Collection. Warwick Fabrics Gloucester Collection (1993), Anne and Robert Swaffer Medici Collection (1994), Textra Millford Collection (1994), Harlequin Wallcoverings Floraganza Collection (1994), Domus Parati Libertine (1996). Unnamed collection for Domus Parati (1997).

Contributed and sold designs to many other home furnishing companies nationally and internationally. Regular clients include: G.P.&.J. Baker Ltd. Warners Ltd. Hill & Knowles PLC. Brian Yates Interiors Ltd., Blendworth Fabrics, Sundour, John Wilman, Borden Decorative Products Ltd., Ikea, Vylnura Wall Coverings.

Exhibitions

Exhibited own designs at Heimtex in Frankfurt (yearly since 1985) Surtex in New York and Indigo in Lille France.

Awards

Received a distinction from the Royal Society of Arts for woven and printed textiles entered in their Bursary scheme. IDDA Decorex/House and Garden Designer of the Year Award - runner up.

Teaching/Education

Weaving demonstrator at Styal Quarry Bank Mill (1985-1987). Taught as a part-time lecturer at Huddersfield Polytechnic, Foundation Art/ Design, HND/BTEC. Surface Pattern, BSc Woven/ Printed Textiles.(l987-1989). Taught as a part-time lecturer at Manchester University (1995) BA Hons Printed Metropolitan Textiles. Taught at Oldham College 3D, Interior/Exhibition Design, Art Foundation and Direct Access Art and Design (1995). Area tutor for the Open College of the Arts, Textiles and Painting. (1996-date). Taught as a part-time lecturer at Stockport College on HND/BTEC Surface Pattern Course (1989-date).

BA(Hons) 2/1 in Woven and Printed Textile Design at Manchester Polytechnic (1981-1984). Obtained a distinction for thesis on the Bolton Quilting Industry. Foundation Studies in Art/Design at Salford College of Technology(l980-l981)