Cressida Bell's 2008 Christmas card design
If one is lucky enough to be born into a family where granny is Vanessa Bell, pappy is Clive Bell, great-auntie is Virginia Woolf, and father is Quentin Bell, I suppose an artistic life should come quite naturally. And certainly it did for artist and designer Cressida Bell. Clearly inspired by her childhood spent amongst the Bloomsbury group, Bell's self-described "meticulous and highly decorative" drawings led her to establish a studio of her own some twenty-plus years ago, and she is now producing not only paintings, but a range of accessories, as well. A number of the designs for fashion accessories and housewares are special commissions created for organizations like the Geffrye Museum in London, her grandmother's house-turned-museum, Charleston, in Sussex, and the Art Fund, which aids in the acquisition of artworks for museums throughout the United Kingdom.
The illustrations on her note papers are easily my most favorite.
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www.cressidabell.com