Quentin Jones – Creating tapestries for House of Quentin Jones
Weaving magic
House of Quentin Jones has now been open a good few months, offering a selection of beautiful items for sale, all designed by Quentin, including vases, platters, bowls, and tapestries.
Regarding the latter, Quentin has just made a short video taking you behind the scenes to reveal everything that goes into the making of each individual tapestry. After completing her initial designs at home in Brooklyn, Quentin heads to Jaipur where each piece is printed to scale for the first time, before she works with local artisans to select antique silks, cut fabric, and put it together like a collage, adding the embroidered elements of the design to create the final tapestry, ready to hang on a wall. You can watch it on Quentin’s Instagram. We’ve included below also.
Even though, with all this going on you’d think Quentin has quite enough to get on with, she’s already on the lookout for the next thing to work on. To that end, we had a quick word with her about the kind of commissions she’d be interested in over the next year or so and the dream brands she’d like to work for:
Do you really have the time to take on more work?
Yes! The best bit about having put together the brand is now I have the best creative assistants in my studio, and we work across film, illustration and art projects, as well as photography and design for the brand. So, I have found I have a lot of time to work on commercial and editorial briefs, which I love doing. It’s so nice to keep creating pieces for others – flexing other techniques and aesthetics. Having that breadth of work keeps me super engaged and inspired.
Give us an idea of the kind of commissions you’d like to get your teeth into?
Always an endless list! But I have been painting a lot of murals, and screens and am loving getting back into pure painting. For so long I was doing mainly photomontage, with painted elements. On the flip side of things, I have been getting pretty good at working with AI to create assets to go into animations, and love bringing in hand painted elements. Extreme clash of mediums, something I have always been drawn to.
But in terms of what sort of commissions – I have always found really 360° creative campaigns the most satisfying. Because I can do artwork for a collaboration, make special edition products, and then make all of the advertising artwork and content – whether that is video, animation, social BTS videos… In creating HOQJ I have turned my simple studio into a much more comprehensive creative studio, and I can’t wait to start sharing some of what we have been doing with other brands.
Given the opportunity, who would you most like to collaborate with?
I would love to do a project with one of the British heritage brands, like Burberry or Liberty, where I could create painted window installations, and perhaps do a limited edition product, and then dream up a really fun series of animated visuals to launch the thing. Or I have been wanting to do a project with a chic booze brand – Quentin Jones Dom Pérignon bottles?!