An artist’s journey to pattern design
Image credit: Best Frame Forward
Jennifer Hunold, the artist behind Memory & Mark, is a contemporary artist whose drawings, paintings, and embroideries have been exhibited across the U.S. for over two decades.
Jennifer’s move into surface pattern design was a natural evolution – an arrival, rather than a pivot.
Roots in repetition
Throughout her life, Jennifer found herself tracing forms, lines, and repetitions.
Her eyes journeyed over wallpapers that adorned her childhood home: trains in the hallway, 60s floral in the playroom, and cartoony turtles in her bedroom.
She pieced apart geometric radiator covers, organic wood grain, and linoleum and tile floors.
Mindlessly from the window of a moving car, her gaze travelled along power lines and undulating limbs of trees.
These elements would become the visual bookends to memories in her life.
Her artist training added influences from color theorists like Albers, Kandinsky, and Klee, and abstractionists like Agnes Martin and Helen Frankenthaler. Folk arts and vintage board games, decorative traditions from around the world, Art Nouveau, and the Pattern and Decoration movement rounded out her inspirations.
One connecting thread persists: thousands of small, repeated marks accumulate to tell a story larger than a single line could suggest.
From studio to surface
Over her career, Jennifer has worked in painting, drawing, and embroidery. Her projects have ranged from floor plans of imagined homes to geometric abstractions to invented landscapes. Across it all, one connecting thread persists: thousands of small, repeated marks accumulate to tell a story larger than a single line could suggest.
For years, people kept telling her the same thing: this would make beautiful wallpaper, tiles, and textiles. Eventually, she agreed.
Memory & Mark is the result – a design practice grounded in the same mark-making that defines her studio work, translated to the surfaces we live with every day.
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