Katie Braid
Katie Braid
Biography
Katie is an Edinburgh based Fashion Illustrator and textile professional, who has spent the last decade working within woven textiles and fashion. Producing illustration and creative work for Scotland's oldest artisan tartan mill, as well as working with brands such as Ashley Williams, Charles Jeffrey, Rolls Royce and Celine in her role at the mill. A champion of British textiles, heritage woven fabrics and knitwear feature heavily in her drawings.
Katie's work has become synonymous with quick, frenetic and often dark mark making. Working in traditional mixed mediums including pencil, gouache, pastel and charcoal. She explores how the fashion event/ show impacts her emotionally, often reactive, responding rapidly inspired by the pace of the music, attitude, mood and movement of the garment. Katie's work has been openly supported by RIXO, Charles Jeffrey Loverboy, Matty Bovan, Elena Velez, all/WITHIN Magazine, Luath Press, Frontiers Women, Drawadot and Fashion Scout.
Katie is a visiting Fashion Illustration tutor for the School of Fashion at Edinburgh College of Art.
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