The Wayne Pate Collection of Hand-Painted Tiles from Balineum
Where’s Wayne Pate? We retain up with our beloved itinerant artist on Instagram (@waynepate), in which he chronicles his perform along with his whereabouts—of late, Paris, Brooklyn, Shelter Island, and now Wellington, New Zealand. Pate’s fanciful geometric imagery references the University of Paris, and lends by itself very well to all sorts of purposes. Two several years ago, Studio 4 NYC released a Wayne Pate assortment of cloth and wallpaper: see Bloomsbury in Brooklyn. Saved NY just lately arrived out with a group of Wayne Pate cashmere blankets and pillows. And past 7 days, Sarah Watson of Balineum in London debuted Pate’s 1st ceramic tiles.
“Putting Wayne’s operate onto tiles has extensive been on my list,” Watson tells us. Performing in the course of the pandemic with a significantly-flung workforce, together with artisans exterior of Naples, Watson poured above Pate’s paintings on paper and canvas, and came up with an first edit from there, she and Pate produced a group of 9 patterns that straddle the line between artwork and decor. Choose a seem.
“Due to the intricacy of the creation, these tiles are most appropriate for smaller sized-scale tasks,” says Watson, who writes on Instagram (@sarah_balineum): “Really on the lookout forward to viewing how clients use these—a border only or on repeat for a entire wall? Laid vertically or horizontally? I’m definitely imagining a row as a kitchen area backsplash (with a skirt sink).”