Artist Statement 

Exhibition Art & Computers

I became interested in computer-aided textile design, when I was a final year student at Chelsea School of Art in 1985. The programme we were using at that time was rather slow and primitive, so together John Couch, the technician/programmer, and myself developed “Drawmouse” – a textile orientated print design software package.

For the last 3 years I have been doing both traditional floral watercolour designs for furnishing, and computer-aided designs as well. These were used for experimenting with colourways, repeats, scales, ideas, etc. I have sold many “Drawmouse” designs to Marks & Spencer, mainly floral prints for toiletry packaging collections.

As well as freelance designs, I have lectured and taken workshops on computer-aided design (mainly textiles) to Art Schools and Colleges all over the country. I now work for KGB Micros Ltd in London, designing, training, demonstrating on a sophisticated “paintbox” like computer
system, using Truevision and Lumena software.

• Judy Foulsham (UK) born 1961. Studied at Winchester School of Art, the Chelsea School of Art (Higher Btec in Textile Design) and the Royal CoUege of Art. I helped to develop a software package, called “Drawmouse” for use on Research Machines Nimbus microcomputers. It is a drawing and painting programme with special textile design applications, mainly for print. “Electric Avenue” to be shown October 1988 on BBC TV.