That summer I took the Cat-a-van as an art piece to lots of music festivals with a lovely group of friends, where we all dressed up as cats and invited festival folk to come into my trippy cat world. I loved the joy that the cat-a-van brought to people and myself and knew that’s what I wanted to somehow do as a career, I just had to work out how to make it happen.
After graduating I worked as a freelance print designer for a couple of years whilst designing my own prints. I made a few bespoke silk scarves for friends and family as birthday gifts – one of them was for my parents with illustrations of all the birds that came into their garden, which when they opened the box, and saw what was inside, made them cry with happiness. They have it framed on their wall now. I basically wanted to then make one for everyone I loved, but that seemed a bit tricky and very time consuming so I created my first collection of silk scarves called ‘The Heart Collection’ and Silken Favours was born...