< back Araminta Campbell Atelier Scottish textile designer Araminta creates beautiful pieces at her Atelier in Duddingston. The team hand weave luxury tartan, tweed and alpaca products, and also offer a mill-woven range, working with rural artisan mills across Scotland. Araminta asked me to develop her main Atelier brand, for which I needed to create… Continue reading Araminta Campbell
Author: helenwyllie
Botanical Garden, Edinburgh
illustration and design for Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Trust
Playing cards – birds and plants
Bird and plant illustrated playing cards I’ve had a plan to create a set of playing cards for years. Decades. My higher art design project was a set of cards on a musical theme. Obviously, they were never realised beyond the paper versions needed to get the higher, but the plan was rooted! In 2011… Continue reading Playing cards – birds and plants
Playing card identification
Playing card identification Hopefully you’ve found your way here because you’ve identified all the birds and plants in my playing cards set and now you’d like to check your accuracy. You may decide the IN-accuracy in my illustration has thrown you off the scent – I’m more than happy to take the blame and call… Continue reading Playing card identification
Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Museum
illustration and design for Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Trust
Jan Tait and the Bear
< back Jan Tait and the Bear – chamber opera animation illustration I created the illustration for an animation for a chamber opera. Jan Tait and the Bear is a Shetlandic folk tale, set when the islands were part of Norway. Jan lived on Fetlar and announced he was going to pay his taxes in… Continue reading Jan Tait and the Bear
Scots Fiddle Festival
< back Scots Fiddle Festival illustration & design I’ve been responsible for the Scots Fiddle Festival look for a long time now! In the first few years, I created something new each time, but once I’d made the castle-fiddle design, it stuck, gradually establishing itself as the festival brand. The event happens over a weekend… Continue reading Scots Fiddle Festival
The Great Wave off North Berwick
Blackbird and sea buckthorn, Seacliff print by Helen WYllie
Forth Rail Bridge
Blackbird and sea buckthorn, Seacliff print by Helen WYllie
Sunset over Fidra print
Blackbird and sea buckthorn, Seacliff print by Helen WYllie
