Belinda Budge

‘I live in the middle of a field in Dorset. My work is about re-imagining my purpose within my landscape. Through finding pattern and repetition, I look for order’.

My work is a natural, earthy process. Observing returning and listening are core to that process. Walking the same paths in Dorset every day in the chalk layers of the landscape, I look for pattern and repetition, some of which are coherent, others chaotic. Using cones, sticks and thistles gathered in the fields, I recreate the patterns, using walnut ink which I make from locally foraged walnuts. The marks are layered, on cloth and on paper. I use chosen papers made from both recycled clothes, and the bark of the Japanese Gampi plant, together with natural thread dyed from the walnut ink.

Sometimes I make new patterns when I am sailing, reflecting the integration of the field patterns with new patterns found at sea. Some of the patterns are captured in my sketch book, some are painted with sticks and walnut ink. ‘Sail Stitch’ was created when I was making my ‘Earth Sails’ and is a reflection of the V shaped pattern often left by the tractor in the fields, and the traditional stitch used on the canvas of the sail. The hoisting of the sail, and the sail’s journey, becomes a performance.

Documenting my process through film is an important focus of my work. Filmmaker Shelly Nel journeys with me through my work, bringing her exquisite mind and eye to capture my process.

Patrick Budge

I am a typographer and graphic designer. I have been running my own graphic design company www.patrickbudge.com for over 25 years. My speciality is working for many well-known hotel and restaurant brands. For example, I developed the brand and visual identity of the global members’ club, Soho House, in its first decade. I have worked on many-award winning food and interiors projects. This often extends to publishing projects when my clients become authors, for example, restauranteur Sally Clarke.

I bring my passion for typography, print, shape and colour to our StudioBudgeBudge projects.