Eleanor Park for De Ferranti
Wild gesture. Structured rhythm. Ceramic pattern caught between control and instinct.
Eleanor Park's work moves between order and abandon. Graphic structures dissolve and reform; botanical gestures become almost animal.
Echo, her new collection for De Ferranti, translates this visual language into ceramic pattern. A single motif shifts through different densities, lines and areas of negative space, creating a surface that feels structured without becoming static.
The Origin of the Collection
Eleanor Park and Alvaro de Ferranti first met in the mid 1990s through the music scene, when Alvaro was playing with Drowse.
Their friendship has continued for more than three decades. Echo brings their shared interest in art, music and pattern together as a De Ferranti collection, giving Eleanor's visual language a new expression through ceramic.
Echo: A Pattern in Transformation
Echo begins with an antique scrolling cartouche, which Eleanor dismantles and reworks. The resulting forms can appear botanical, birdlike or entirely abstract.
Inspired by the hand painted spirit of the Omega Workshops and the graphic freedom of Matisse's cut paper compositions, the collection gives negative space equal importance to the painted mark.
The result is decorative without being nostalgic, and expressive without losing structure.
Four Motifs, Four States
Every Echo design is built as a four tile repeat. One motif changes progressively as density falls away, line shifts and open space expands.
Bloom - The fullest expression of the motif, with feathered forms radiating around a central diamond.
Ava - A graphic cartouche framed by a light, feathery fringe and open central star.
Daystar - Fine spiked curves gather around small starbursts, creating an airy, rhythmic repeat.
Arabesque - The most elemental design: slender tendrils and skeletal scrolling gestures move across the surface.
Together, the four designs show how one form can expand, contract and reform while retaining its original character.
Colour Drawn from Earth and Light
Echo's four colourways draw on mineral, botanical and naturally dyed tones.
Slate Blue
A deep midnight navy with cool, stony grey undertones.
Madder Root
A dusky terracotta inspired by traditional natural plant dyes.
Nettle
A soft, desaturated sage with dry organic warmth.
Magic Hour
A sun washed peachy terracotta inspired by late afternoon light.
Together, the palette allows Echo to move between quiet, cool interiors and warmer, more expressive spaces.
Artist Profile: Eleanor Park
Eleanor Park is a multimedia artist whose work explores the tension between structure and the subconscious.
Her practice spans painting, textile, collage and object. She allows each medium to influence the work as it develops, creating compositions that feel both recognisable and otherworldly.
With a background in Printed Textiles at Middlesex University and an MA in Scenography from Central Saint Martins, Eleanor treats surface as a space where pattern, image and narrative can coexist.
In Echo, her visual language moves into the interior. Pattern repeats and connects across ceramic, bringing an instinctive, less predictable quality to everyday spaces.
Friendship, Music and Creativity
For De Ferranti, Echo is also the continuation of a relationship that began long before the collection itself. Friendship, music and separate creative lives have, decades later, found a new point of intersection.
The echo is therefore more than a motif.
It is an idea returning in another form.
DE FERRANTI
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