Emergence

Paint, breaking open.

Emergence collection mood board - hand painted pod, pebble and texture patterns in chartreuse, magenta, gold and violet on pale gray and navy grounds, with wallpaper and pillow mockups and color swatches

Every form in Emergence is real paint. I pushed a palette knife through yellow oxide, quinacridone magenta, Payne’s gray and titanium buff, and let a lime green come through like new growth. They look like pods and seeds splitting open, but nothing in nature grows like this. It’s paint doing what paint does when you let it move.

I painted these forms meaning them to become a pattern collection. First they became a collage book, Wild Creation: Spring – Emergence, and now they’re the collection I saw in the first place. The knife ridges, the dried rings and the ragged edges all stayed in, and the ground underneath is scraped from the painting I made alongside them.

Four designs, two grounds: airy Mist and glowing Navy. Which one would you live with?

The eight

Every design repeats at ten inches. Click any one to see it bigger.

Emergence hero pattern - hand painted palette knife pods and seeds in chartreuse, magenta, gold and violet, clustered over a scraped pale gray ground, 10 inch half-drop repeat
Hero · Mist — Pods breaking open on a pale scraped ground.
Emergence hero pattern - hand painted pods and seeds in chartreuse, hot magenta, gold and violet on a deep mottled navy ground, 10 inch half-drop repeat
Hero · Navy — The same pods, glowing in the dark.
Emergence tossed pods pattern - single hand painted pods and wine colored seeds scattered over a scraped pale gray ground, 10 inch half-drop repeat
Tossed Pods · Mist — Smaller, looser, every which way.
Emergence tossed pods pattern - single hand painted pods and wine colored seeds scattered over a deep navy ground, 10 inch half-drop repeat
Tossed Pods · Navy — The tossed pods after dark.
Emergence painted pebbles pattern - glowing gold painted dots with violet and magenta rims and tiny wine seeds on a scraped pale gray ground, 10 inch half-drop repeat
Pebbles · Mist — Dots, only painted.
Emergence painted pebbles pattern - gold painted dots with violet and magenta rims and tiny wine seeds on a deep navy ground, 10 inch half-drop repeat
Pebbles · Navy — Small lanterns.
Emergence painterly texture blender - scraped, layered pale gray painted surface with flecks of rose, ochre and blue gray, 10 inch half-drop repeat
Texture · Mist — The painted ground on its own.
Emergence painterly texture blender - deep mottled navy painted surface, nearly solid from a distance, 10 inch half-drop repeat
Texture · Navy — The anchor of the collection.

On the wall, on the cloth

Flat squares don’t tell you how big a thing is. These do.

Emergence pattern collection mockups in two colorways - dining room wallpaper, folded fabric, a throw pillow and a bench of cushions, shown in pale Mist and deep Navy
Mist on top, Navy below: wallpaper, cloth and cushions.

Where to find it

Emergence is in the Shiny Designs shop on Spoonflower. See the whole collection on fabric, wallpaper and gift wrap, printed to order.

If you’re a buyer, a maker, or anyone who wants this collection on something, write to me here.

Shine your light!
Monette