Caroline Rees - Designer

'A love of pattern, a passion for design and an absolute dedication to quality'

Caroline graduated in Textile Design from Brighton in 1986, and has designed for textile studios in Europe and America.

She has applied her distinctive style to many applications - Caroline is so passionate about drawing and mark-making that any blank surface is, to her, one that is waiting to be decorated! - but within the last 10 years has acquired a reputation for her use of architectural glass as a surface.

The technique she employs to decorate the surface of flat glass is a well used and traditional one. The application of her wonderfully elaborate, decorative designs gives etched glass a fresh and contemporary feel.

The versatility of this technique allows her to create opaque glass with sumptuous patterns in a carved 3d effect for those areas that you'd rather not expose!
Her semi-transparent decorative glass adds a beautiful feature to a room and has the additional exciting effect of projecting the pattern onto surrounding surfaces under certain light conditions.

In 2002, having exhibited her work extensively in other galleries around the country, she decided to set up her own gallery. Celf (the Welsh word for art) was opened in the village of Mumbles, on the Gower Peninsula.

In 2005 she undertook a collaborative design project with Michelle Scragg under the name Celf Design. Together they designed a range of textiles which have been marketed in Ireland.