Hello. I’m Bonnie Craig, a UK-based visual artist and designer working mainly with pattern.

I use pattern as a way to work with people, places and stories to create large-scale pieces, like public art on the walls, windows and floors of a building, and small-scale pieces, like one-off prints.

Pattern connects us: we all experience the patterns of our heartbeats, our breath, our routines. Visually, we seek out pattern, and it can affect our mood, thoughts and behaviour. My work plays with the boundaries of what pattern is, exploring the balance between order and disorder. I see pattern as an art form in itself, as opposed to ‘mere’ decoration.

Research (finding things out) and process (how I make things) are both important in my work, which means I’m constantly taking photos, making notes, testing ideas and trying to order my thoughts.

I’m inspired by a contradictory mix of neat, minimal, systematic design, extremely complex, decorative patterns and big, free, gestural work, and out of all this comes my own interpretation of pattern.

Born in Brighton on the south coast, I moved to the north west in 2012 to do an MA in Surface Pattern, and have enjoyed exploring my adopted home ever since.