HANNAH NUNN

Capturing images of the woodlands near her home of Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire, on camera and in her sketchbook, inspired Nunn’s patterns of grasses and meadow flowers made from silhouettes and paper cuts

Nunn’s designs are made up of extremely delicate silhouettes of grasses and flowers that start off as sketches before turning into paper cut motifs, which are then arranged into a pattern. ‘Looking at nature up close gives me frissons of excitement and makes me immediately want to draw its delicacy,’ she says. ‘It matters to me that you see each flower clearly within my patterns.’ Nunn can name where and when she first saw the individual motifs on each design. ‘I can remember that particular dandelion, in that particular meadow, and how, when I held it up to the light, I thought – wow, look at how the tiny seeds are held together.’

A recent commission from The Brontë Parsonage – situated a few miles over the moors from Nunn’s studio – resulted in a wallpaper entitled ‘Charlotte’s Garden’, which marks the bicentenary of Charlotte Brontë’s birthday. ‘Initially, I had an idea in my head of a really neutral shade for this design, one that was easy to live with, almost like a craft paper,’ says Nunn. ‘ With the help of a colourist who works at the factory that produces the wallpapers, I experimented with soft blues, greys and neutrals.’

‘I’m a natural doodler and I try not be too paralysed by all of the amazing things that other people are doing out there,’ she adds. ‘I just want to carry on being excited about all the new designs the natural world inspires me to create.’ hannahnunn.co.uk