September 2025 – Lydia Thornley

Textile swatches and illustrations making repeat patterns from Studio Snack illustrations of a pretzel ampersand, a scone with ambition and a mozzarella plant

Illustration on repeat

24th September, 2025 by Lydia Thornley

I think it started with an album of Paraguayan music my parents had when I was a small child. It had a photograph of a market on the sleeve. I loved its colours and patterns and I’ve had a thing about markets ever since. So when we made a Studio Snack … Read More

Ribbons pinned in lines, an early monoprinnt experiment of prinnted ribbon on top of a sketch and the mixed media drawing, monoprint and stitched piece

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A line of enquiry

20th September, 2025 by Lydia Thornley

This is not our final piece for London Bridge, part of 26 Bridges, a project by writers’ organisation 26… My creative collaboration with writer Jonathan Holt has been so rich in ideas that for a while, we had two lines of enquiry running in parallel. This one came from the … Read More

Month: September 2025