Mixing up surface design influences from the 1960s and 70s with traditional Middle Eastern mosaics, and reinterpreting them through vector illustrations, results in the clean geometries of Sophie Honeybelle’s patterns.
Glow 1
Grids – vertical or diagonal – are at the core of her work. She is fascinated with tessellations, and with the negative spaces that are formed between motifs. Particularly, she loves that element of serendipity in pattern-making; of placing a motif and “not knowing how [that] motif will create a pattern until it’s lined up with multiples of itself.”
Moon Flower 2
Sunshine 1
Originally trained as a painter and graduating with a BA (Hons) Fine Art from Falmouth College of Arts in the UK, Sophie has since turned her attention to multiple other forms of expression – jewellery designing/making and photography, as well as pattern making, for which she has a particular fondness.
Rain 1
Rain 2
Moon Flower 1
sophie honeybelle – turquoise mosaic – iphone case via society6
She is currently undertaking the e-course through The Art and Business of Surface Pattern Design, and her work is available through Society6 at honeybelle, or through her own website, honeybelle.co.uk.