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NOVEMBER / DECEMBER . 2021 | VOL.22
Young Designer Jessica explains: ‘’This specific piece of
Creates Artwork for work is organic, lively, delicate in form and
verdant, hugely influenced by the natural
New Coffee environment in which coffee is often
grown. I wanted to show the plant
Collection growing naturally and organically,
highlighting its distinctive features
including the flower and leaf, the rest of
the piece needed to also be organic. But
at the same time, I wanted to use a
painterly style to show that the print work
had originally been hand painted. To
show that this work was very much a
personal piece to represent a high quality
product - in essence that every element
of the coffee had been carefully
John Farrer & Co of Kendal, who have been one considered from the bean to the box to
of the UK's leading producers, roasters, provide the very best coffee possible.’’
suppliers and distributors of coffee and tea for
over two hundred years, recently launched
their NEW John Farrer Signature collection.
The new coffee collection is a project born out
of the real passion for coffee of Farrer’s team of
roasters, who painstakingly handpick selected
premium single origin coffees from sought-
after coffee crops produced by small single
estate plantations around the globe.
To reflect the premium nature of the coffees Jessica’s design work is strongly
the company commissioned young North West influenced by a range of artforms, with
based designer Jessica Walsh to create a suite particular references to more traditional
of artwork to highlight the new, small batch, forms from her fine art studies,
seasonal, single origin coffees sourced from particularly the Baroque realism of
around the globe. Renaissance masters, including the likes
of Caravaggio and Gentileschi. More
Jessica’s brief for the Signature Collection was recently, however, her work has also
to incorporate a range of representative incorporated elements taken from both
elements, especially referencing both the the modernist and abstract movements,
coffee berry and the plant itself within her leading to the development of an
design concepts. intriguing style delivering some intriguing
juxtapositions.
