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Love your customer …

  Some of Lilla’s pottery projects. This is an extract from a wonderful blog that I enjoyed a great deal, by Whitney Smith, a potter from Oakland, California. Love your customer, even when you don’t Whitney writes: “I worked a few jobs in high school that required constant interaction with the public, and I learned — as did my supervisors — that customer service was not my forte. People would get on my nerves with their foolish expectation that I should serve them quickly and politely. I would shake with indignation if a customer gave me attitude. Of course I was young and untrained, and I had little idea what the word “customer service” meant, only that it sounded like somebody else’s job. I thought being an artist and escaping into my studio every day was a great way to avoid having too many encounters with the general public. I


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Using natural inspiration to make a repeat floral pattern

How to use your sketches to make a repeat floral pattern Trina Dalziel is an illustrator who is now represented by Lilla Rogers Studio. She recently got in touch to share her process for creating surface design, and showed us how she used inspiration from a visit to a local nursery to make a repeat floral pattern. Trina’s photos from Inshriach plant nursery in the Highlands in Scotland. Trina wrote:  “I thought you might like to see how my collection of repeat patterns named Inshriach started. Last May, I went home to Scotland to visit my parents. On my Mum’s birthday, we went to Inshriach plant nursery, which is in a wood at the foot of the Cairngorm Mountains in the Highlands. They have a little café that sells amazing cakes made by the owner’s Norwegian wife and where you can sit and watch squirrels and birds in the trees