b'words: Melanie Cooper chez moi pictures: Lucent* Mediapicture perfect Tanya Wolfkamp Design DirectorOil paints, watercolours, collage, bleach, printmaking andeven house paints are all in a days work for design directorTanya Wolfkamp.AspartoftheteamatCodiDesignthecommercialTanyas job also takes her offshore every year, scouting forThe Resene The offspring of Maurice Kains in-house textile studioTanyanew textile trends and inspiration. Range Whitesand Neutrals is a uses many different materials and techniques to create newLooking at what is on offer overseas helps with colourcollection of 300 fabric designs for drapes and homeware. And despite all thewhites, neutrals and trend forecasting for the local market, but it alsoand blacks to technical processes involved in generating new textiles, eachprovides a sense of our own design personality, she says.make creating a design starts out as an original artwork created on paper. tonal scheme easy. Feminine, oral prints that have a real market in the UKView the fandeck Theres really no such thing as a typical day for me, butjust wouldnt sell here. Part of that is about the size of ourand swatches at your Resene most days involve drawing, painting and using colourallmarket, but its also because our tastes here tend to runColorShop.the things that I love, says Tanya. to a more beachy, simple, masculine look.82 |'