Crafting the Stories of Our Human Experience
COMMISSION AND COLLABORATIONWELCOMEWays to Connect, Invest and Collaborate
Interested in working together? Here are some ways we could do that. Then keep scrolling to learn more about me and my process.
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A place to document my works, my process and stories of home, craft and our shared human experience - the beautiful and the broken. Read it here.
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Join the studio list to get the latest information on my work, blog stories, behind the scenes content and VIP access to collection drops. Email me to be added to the studio list here
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I drop 2-3 collections a year consisting of 8-10 small to large works surrounding a human experience theme. Sign up to my mailing list to be kept up to date with launches, behind the scenes content plus VIP viewings and first chance to buy.
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A bespoke and unique process - a soulful space. A space to connect with me personally: we deeply indulge in your story, your home and create something truly beautiful with deep connection and meaning that you will enjoy for a lifetime.
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I love collaborating with like-minded small businesses who’s values align to my own. If you have an idea for a longer standing commission project or wholesale collaboration, let’s see if we can create something wonderful together?
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I’m as comfortable working within individual homes, through to larger scale installations for the hotel / retail and luxury residential sectors. I full-scale project manage within a budget to suit your needs.
MEET THE MAKERHi, I’m Nikki..
A product designer, colour specialist and textile artist. I create bespoke original artwork which crafts the stories of our human experience: complex and multi-layered, yet quiet and contemplative - a place to celebrate the beautiful and the broken.
Each original piece is inspired by personal stories, narratives and fragments of memories - from people and places. A form of story-telling which is deeply personal: yet something we can all relate to.
Moving picture and all images by Justyna Kulam.
THE DETAILSHuman Emotion
Colour is art, and art is human: crafting the stories of the human experience through textile.
I have always been captivated by the ways in which people experience and perceive life, and how it might differ from my own. We progress through life acquiring a rich patina of individualised experience + consciousness.
But what does this consciousness look like? What is the texture of expectation? How muted is the colour of judgement and fear? And what shape is our joy or our pain?
My work intends to visualise mental narratives: a form of storytelling that I believe we can all relate to - A place to celebrate the beautiful and the broken.
“I’ve always been enchanted by colour. I think creating through colour is simply how I show up in the world – how I ‘do’ things and definitely how I think about and ‘see’ things”
— Nikki Heaton
MY STORYA Labour of Love
With a creative career spanning almost 2 decades, I stepped sideways from my Senior Colour Specialist role in 2020 to focus on building a freelance art and colour consultancy business around raising my son full time.
I wanted to create a new kind of life for us; one that felt family oriented, full of passion and reflected our new and changing values as a family.
I needed and wanted to work and create (and always will); but I wanted to do it with and around our son.
CONNECTING USHome
If we reside in our homes, then our homes become human: a symbiosis of function, emotion and support.
Home. Here, we are free to feel our widest range of emotions. We observe a rich patina of individualised experiences gradually etch upon us: smudges and marks upon our hearts and walls.
Our home is a mixture of old and new, organic and geometric; rough edged meets elegance. I surround myself with a simple, warm and natural earth-tone palette and place high values on comfort, good design, detail, craftmanship, layering and perhaps most of all materiality.
I’m captivated with how things are made along with how they make me feel - to my hands and to my heart.
All these things encompass my values as a person and a designer - and therefore my artwork.
“I’m captivated with how things are made, along with how they make me feel - to my hands and to my heart. All these things encompass my values as a person and a designer - and therefore my artwork.”
— Nikki Heaton
My mum is a seamstress: I grew up comforted night after night, by the sound of her sewing machine as a drifted off to sleep. Her creative influence has been instrumental in my career and my love of textiles.
Layers of linen interweave; multiple layers of paint and weathering set the linen in solid formation. An eventual haptic ‘tapestry’ is formed: ‘memories’ captured forever in visual formation.
I inherited my mum’s sewing machine a few years ago; sewing with it feels such a meaningful and cyclical journey...
Signature stitches link the shapes and forms creating metaphorical references linked to the raw human experience & consciousness: this journey we are all on.
PROVENENCE + MATERIALS Consciously Curated
Crafted with hands and heart: investing in honest materials and sustainable, transparent production.
It all started with an old pair of jeans…..
My work creates a tension between organic and geometric, rough edged and elegant; with a simple, warm and natural earth-tone palette.
From sourcing through to manufacture; I’ve always felt a necessity to work as consciously as I can. Sustainable textiles, small-batch inks, to FSC certified hardwood; I place high values on good design, detail, craftsmanship, layering and perhaps most of all materiality.
Each stage of my process is curated and considered to ensure a holistic beauty, quality and execution that you can be sure will mirror your own values.
[This Life, We Build (2020) (below). Crafted from a pair of worn denim jeans, it sparked something in my practice which lead me down the path to fully sustainable textile sourcing, and since then I have been crafting exclusively from re-cycled, salvage or waste textile.]
COMMISSION PRICINGTransparent Pricing
I believe art should be enjoyed by all: not a special club that you do not belong to.
I’ve always felt a certain level of anxiety around the ‘enquire’ button on art work. My whole life it felt unattainable (it mainly still is), and I felt perhaps like ‘art’ was a club that I could not belong. So I wouldn’t enquire…I then would never prioritise it or plan to acquire it. I shut it out.
Two of my biggest values is transparency and the attainability of artwork for all. I never want you to feel awkward chatting to me or enquiring about working together, and so I offer a range of artworks in sizes starting at a lower investment, up to a more sizable commitment, I also create extremely high discount sales at least once per year.
If our values align and my work speaks to you, please reach out. There is always something we can achieve within your budget.
Keep scrolling for prices and details of my XS-L size artworks.
BESPOKE COMMISSION‘The XS’
A bespoke and unique process - a soulful space. A space to connect with me personally: we deeply indulge in your story, your home and create something truly beautiful with deep connection and meaning that you will enjoy for a lifetime.
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The ‘baby’. A seriously cute extra small original handmade works, around 120 - 170mm in size.
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Complete and ready to hang. Bespoke and handmade; framed in a choice of walnut or oak; complete with museum standard anti-glare and UV glass.
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£300
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Commission artworks all take a minimum of 4-8 weeks, lead time, and in busy periods can be up to 12weeks or longer if there is a wait list. Please enquire ahead of time for an accurate booking slot quote - especially if you’re trying to make a special date.
BESPOKE COMMISSION‘The S’
A bespoke and unique process - a soulful space. A space to connect with me personally: we deeply indulge in your story, your home and create something truly beautiful with deep connection and meaning that you will enjoy for a lifetime.
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A small original handmade works, around 250mm x 310mm in size.
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Complete and ready to hang. Bespoke and handmade thin edged float frame. In a choice of walnut or oak.
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£450
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Commission artworks all take a minimum of 4-8 weeks, lead time, and in busy periods can be up to 12weeks or longer if there is a wait list. Please enquire ahead of time for an accurate booking slot quote - especially if you’re trying to make a special date.
BESPOKE COMMISSION‘The M’
A bespoke and unique process - a soulful space. A space to connect with me personally: we deeply indulge in your story, your home and create something truly beautiful with deep connection and meaning that you will enjoy for a lifetime.
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A small original handmade works, around 400mm x 310mm in size.
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Complete and ready to hang. Bespoke and handmade thin edged float frame. In a choice of walnut or oak.
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£550
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Commission artworks all take a minimum of 4-8 weeks, lead time, and in busy periods can be up to 12weeks or longer if there is a wait list. Please enquire ahead of time for an accurate booking slot quote - especially if you’re trying to make a special date.
BESPOKE COMMISSION‘The L’
A bespoke and unique process - a soulful space. A space to connect with me personally: we deeply indulge in your story, your home and create something truly beautiful with deep connection and meaning that you will enjoy for a lifetime.
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A large original handmade works, around 400mm x 600mm in size.
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Complete and ready to hang. Bespoke and handmade thin edged float frame. In a choice of walnut or oak.
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£700
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Commission artworks all take a minimum of 4-8 weeks, lead time, and in busy periods can be up to 12weeks or longer if there is a wait list. Please enquire ahead of time for an accurate booking slot quote - especially if you’re trying to make a special date.
A Meeting of Hands Hearts and Minds
MEET THE TEAMI’ve been extremely fortunate to connect and collaborate with some wonderful women in business along this journey. I value collaboration extremely highly; together I believe we are all better.
Their bespoke skills and craft in framing, photography and videography have all brought my brand vision to life in the most beautiful way; as such, I cherish these women and the creative relationships and friendships we have fostered.
I am always open to fostering dialogue and collaboration with women in business whoes values and skills mirror and compliment my own.
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Nikki Heaton
Colour Consultant, Product Designer, Textile Artist.
With a creative career spanning almost 2 decades, I stepped sideways from my Senior Colour Specialist role for Jaguar Land Rover in 2020 to focus on building a freelance art and colour consultancy business around raising my son full time.
I’ve written more about my journey here.
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Justyna Kulam
Photography, Videography and Styling
Justyna and I met in 2020, and as new business owners have supported and championed each other every step of the way. Her work has an effortless talent in bringing my vision to life in a way I could once only have dreamed of.
I’ve written more about our partnership here.
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Anna Kora Bartyzel
A master craftswoman in bespoke joinery and framing, Annas uses only the finest and most sustainable materials in her process to mirror my process: together our work truly shines.
I’ve written more about our partnership here.
DREAM TEAMHave a Bigger Project or Collaboration in Mind?
Having managed large scale global creative projects for huge brands since 2006 (to include Mondelez / Cadburys, Nokia and Jaguar Land Rover), I have more than enough experience to bring your larger scale projects to life across luxury residential, hotel, retail and leisure sectors.
I liaise with all segments of the creation process from architects, designers through to suppliers and tradespeople to enable your project to run as smoothly as possible; to bring beauty meaning and soul to your space through my work.
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Let me liase with your architects, designers and interior stylist teams to design and create bespoke and holistic art installations together, to elevate your brand and space within a budget to suit your project.
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From sustainable textiles, raw small-batch handmade inks, to bespoke FSC certified hardwood framing: each stage of my process is curated and considered to ensure a holistic beauty, quality and execution that you can be sure will mirror your own brand values.
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I know how important it is to oversea projects from beginning to end: I can be available with any help required to ensure the best installation of your work
Ready to Book? or Enquire?
LETS CHATIf you’ve made it this far and are interesting in simply saying hello or finding out more, please email me directly, or fill in this form and I will get back to you.