Profession / role:

textiles and fashion designer

My primary role in relation to fashion is:

Designer, Manufacturer

I am looking to discover or buy

cooperatives in India to do sewing and cutting

About me / About business or organisation:

Although I trained in fashion and textiles and worked with fashion and interiors for many years, I eventually became an apprentice to a portrait painter and have been painting portraits professionally for the last 10 yrs (while my kids were small.)I also used an exhibition of my paintings to campaign for a death row prisoner in the US and that led me to a decision to want to use my creative skills as a benefit elsewhere. I am in the process of setting up of a profit sharing fashion company to empower rural women in India by offering training and designs for the international market. I have a partner in Delhi.

Career history / Company history:

Art History BA Hons Manchester University
Art Teachers Certificate
Post grad Manchester Art School in Fashion and Textiles
Freelance textile design and set up fashion label
Accounts Manager of Home Furnishings with Tigerprint
(suppliers to M & S)
Interior designer for property company
Painter specialising in portraits