Amy Strachan is a Textile Designer working from her studio in Troon, Scotland.

Inspired by colour, people, emotions, nature, art & the sea; joiie designs combine both traditional & contemporary printing techniques.

Each unique collection embraces both light & dark while celebrating the joy in small unrepeatable moments.

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Amy is also a Nurse (Mental Health), who’s passionate about promoting positive health and wellbeing during the design process and the new collection ‘Flow,Grow,Sew’ is a celebration of drawing, colour, growth and finding joy in the everyday.

Amy’s small one-off textile collections are designed, printed (The Glasgow School of Art) and sewn in her little studio in Scotland-with care and consideration for the environment.

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Education:

BDes (Hons) Textile Design, Duncan of Jordanstone, Dundee

BSc Nursing (Mental Health), Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen

MSc Psychology, University of the West of Scotland, Paisley (Present)

Exhibitons:

Society of Scottish Artists, Edinburgh (Annual exhibition)

Visual Arts Society, Edinburgh (Annual Exhibition)

Paisley Museum and Art Gallery, Paisley (Annual Exhibition)

Harbour Arts Centre, Irvine (WASPS Community Exhibition)

Galleries:

National Portrait Gallery (shop), London

The Briggait, Christmas Market, Glasgow

Voisins, Christmas Market, Paris

Tayberry Gallery, Perth

Concrete Wardrobe, Edinburgh,

Junction Arts, Aberdeen,

Hunter’s Jewellery Design, Forfar