Adele Pound

Adele studied fine art, painting at Winchester School of Art where she dismayed her tutors by insisting on painting wildlife. The inspiration for all her work is the natural world. Central to this is her ongoing practice of drawing from life. Whether making field trips to Strangford Lough to draw wintering birds through a telescope or clipping magnifiers to her glasses to study insects in her garden, she still insists on drawing wildlife. It is this careful study, observation and research that informs Adele’s self taught paper engineering skills. Immediately recognisable species are depicted through the use of simple shapes and colours. Each design is a learning process that expands, and reveals new ideas and possibilities for the next design.