My designs are not created by intuition alone. They're not direct expressions of my feelings. I like reading, so I use patterns I've discovered in 20th C philosophies and use them as series of rules to create repeat designs for fabric.

I use three rules in fact. There's a colourless layer that's tiny, almost insignificant and very repetitive. Then there's at least one, maybe two, highly coloured harmonious layers that are neither dominant nor insignificant. In these layers, each motif is related to another in that it has part-of the colour of another motif. Finally there's a very large dominant motif in a single tone (colour) albeit a variety of tint (level of whiteness). The dominant motifs push all the others into the background as they stand with authority in the foreground. I layer these patterns so that they create a complex arrangement for fabric.

Then I apply intuition and break the rules!