{"id":65674,"url":"\/about\/","layout":"standard","version":"2024-11-12T11:15:15.000000Z","blocks":[{"id":432552,"type":"textBlock","published":1,"size":{"x":12,"y":0},"order":2,"items":[],"properties":{"html":{"id":4555290,"value":"<p><strong>About Lydia Thornley<\/strong><\/p><p><\/p><p>I\u2019m a graphic designer, creative director and sketch illustrator.<\/p><p>In decades of design, sketching was the bit of my work that clients never saw \u2013 the thinking on paper \u2013 until, working on a studio booklet about drawing as part of my design practice, I was challenged to do a drawing a day until it had to go to press. I didn\u2019t stop\u2026<\/p><p>Now, my quick, gestural drawing style in traditional and digital media is commissioned for live sketching at events, sketch engagement, sketch illustration and activities using drawing as a way of looking at things.<\/p><p>I\u2019m also a voracious filler of sketchbooks and I always have personal projects on the go. Including this, putting sketches on products.<\/p><p><em>Instagram: @lydiathornley <\/em><\/p><p><em>Studio website https:\/\/thornley.co.uk<\/em><\/p><p><\/p><p><strong>About the shop<\/strong><\/p><p><\/p><p>The store is powered by Teemill, who care about responsible production from seed to packaging. Teemill print to order, ship to you direct in rip and splash-proof paper packaging or boxes and control the data. And, when your garment is worn out, it\u2019s designed to be sent back to them.<\/p>"},"title":{"id":4555291,"value":null},"subTitle":{"id":4555292,"value":null},"paragraph1":{"id":4555293,"value":null},"paragraph2":{"id":4555294,"value":null},"paragraph3":{"id":4555295,"value":null},"ratio":{"id":4555296,"value":"short"}}},{"id":3943279,"type":"pod","published":1,"size":{"x":3,"y":0},"order":1,"items":[],"properties":{"title":{"id":91905626,"value":null},"copy":{"id":91905627,"value":null},"href":{"id":91905628,"value":null},"badge":{"id":91905629,"value":null},"icon":{"id":91905630,"value":null},"overlay":{"id":91905631,"value":"0"},"ratio":{"id":91905632,"value":"square"},"textAlign":{"id":91905633,"value":"center"},"image":{"id":91905634,"value":"{\"src\":\"https:\\\/\\\/images.podos.io\\\/dstq3nhodrqd2neg0tgsi5omdth8qoiqnwwazarha0zrhmum.jpeg.jpg?w=auto&h=auto\",\"alt\":\"\"}"}}}],"properties":{"title":{"id":4555221,"value":"About"},"description":{"id":4555222,"value":"I\u2019m a graphic designer, creative director and reportage sketcher. And I\u2019ve turned turned my lockdown illustration project Dispatches from a small world, reporting from my London garden in sketches, into a blog. \n\nSpending time with plants through drawing, I notice so much more than I would otherwise see. I watch seedlings come up, leaves unfurl, flowers shake out their skirts, fruits turn, seeds set... Simple colours turn out to have a lot more going on. \n\nI draw in ballpoint pen, watercolour and I\u2019ve been using waste materials an offcuts to draw on.\n\nNow selected drawings are available on organic cotton garments and bags."},"ogImage":{"id":4555224,"value":"https:\/\/images.podos.io\/3wnrajvzvpgqhdpfs4cpves1wosfmt9arycsqfwjn04x9j34.jpeg.jpg?w=1200&h=auto"},"isStorePage":{"id":4557579,"value":"1"},"userSaved":{"id":4561627,"value":"1"}},"labels":[],"published":1,"sitemap":1,"divisionId":151140,"edited":true}