Alison Butler, Hampshire based textile designer will be demonstrating some lino printing and guiding you to make your own unique cards and wrapping paper with a potato printer.

About Alison Butler

Alison Butler is the owner of Blooming Designs.  As well as a textile designer, artist and illustrator in her own right, she organises and runs art courses and particularly the newly launched Art in The Barn.

Alison graduated from Loughborough University in 1990 with a degree in printed textiles. In partnership with a fellow student, they set up Blooming Designs and  built a successful business selling textile prints to leading high street fashion chains both in the UK and Internationally. Influenced by free wheeling illustrators such as Quentin Blake, their designs were sold predominantly to the children’s wear market.

With a creative flare that is not limited to textiles alone, Alison has also worked with a number of companies to produce large-scale backdrops for corporate events and theatre productions.

Alison lives with her husband and two children on farm in the Meon Valley.