Carving a future
Feb 27, 2020
3 minutes
Words Rachel Crow
Photographs Jeremy Phillips
iran Ravilious’ top-floor studio, nestled under the eaves of a screen-printing factory on the corner of a quiet street in Leicestershire, looks out over the grey urban rooftops – a far remove from the lush greenery of tropical plants and vegetation that surrounded her as a child growing up in Singapore, and which inspired many of her earliest designs. ‘I would often go to the Botanical Gardens and doodle for hours, and I used to love drawing trees as a child – you get such huge ones over there. But
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