Agathe De Filippi, textile pattern Designer

After she graduated from The Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, Agathe started painting for a living and has been doing so for the past fifteen years. She has had many succesful exhibitions, in France mainly.

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She started working with fabrics and materials a decade ago whilst still painting on canvas. “I have always loved fabrics, colours...it was therefore a logical continuation for me when I began working in that field,” Agathe says. She goes on explaining that while working for Cacharel as a fabric colourist she was still using gouache. "It was a great experience . I was in the fashion industry and I was learning how to use colour in a different way." Working in that environment helped, strangely, my painting to grow, to mature.

As a consequence, it became less ornamental.” The bright colours of the fabrics display the colour from her painter’s palette. "I really enjoy this double aspect of the work. I feel that my “fabric painting” is the opposite of my “canvas work” but, at the same time, it sort of completes it. I would say that it is more gutsy and deeper on canvas and lighter-hearted on fabrics, even if it still is conceptual. I always draw on dreams, the imaginary. It definitely helps me to find a sense of balance."

Maybe it is because different sides of my personality coexist and are expressed in harmony through my designs.” She finds her inspiration in the music she listen to all the time, the exhibitions she goes to, the novels she reads, the landscapes she sees around her. Her universe is first and foremost a happy and colourful one, with a good dash of humour.