Fractal Wallpaper

I created this wallpaper using the screen-print method. I used my hand drawn fractal image as the basis for the pattern as I prefer the added textures and flaws that these manual techniques provide. I could have transfered my pattern into digital software to polish the lines and improve the joins, and if this was being produced for a commercial environment I would have done this. However, for me the manual processes of producing the work is just as important and enjoyable as the result, so I try as much as possible to maintain these methods.
Many of my designs begin life as a 2D pattern or image before moving forward to more innovative ideas. With this design, I now plan to incorporate it into a fabric piece using the capillary-action method from my previous work, and attempt to "grow" the fractal pattern on the fabric wall hanging.

Fractal Patterns

After producing the piece "Floral Hanging" in October which used capillary action to create colour and pattern, I chose to further my research in natural growth and other processes in plants and flowers to find other possible methods or patterns for wallpaper designs.
Much of my work in this medium is influenced by horticulture and natural pattern so I found it very interesting and inspiring to look beyond the mere aesthetics of floral patterns in wallpaper and consider a more scientific approach.
The fractal pattern idea came to me after watching a natural history programme on which it was explained that the first living organism was formed through the simpest of fractal formations. I find fractals are aesthetically pleasing in themselves and the more I looked into it I realised how common they were in nature from trees and leaves, vegetables such as brocolli, and even cloud and lightening formations.
Keeping with the theme of horticulture, I have begun drawing simple plant-like factals and plan to develop these into screen-printed wallpapers and later, experiment with combining the fractal patterns with the time based 'capillary action' method to create a wallpaper that not only mimics the pattern of plant growth but also the method in which it grows and spreads.