KATIE CHARLESON

Screen Printed Homewares & Bespoke Textile Design

Born of a love of colour, a fascination with texture and a passion for print.

Katie Charleson is a screen printed textile artist and designer based in Edinburgh. Print is at the core of her process, and she develops her poetic works into surface design for interiors; large quilts and interior objects.

Katie takes the two-dimensional work of printmaking and adds the depth, texture and tactility of quilting to create ‘soft sculptures’. She uses the blocky, repetitive nature of printing paradoxically; to create depth and fluidity, exploring materiality and surface.

Katie places a great deal of importance on hand making; promoting the visibility of the human hand in everything produced. She revels in employing screen-printing idiosyncratically, embracing the subtleties of natural dyes and monoprinting. The physicality of her work shines through, from the process of combining painting and printing in dyes; to the slow, methodical hand stitching of quilting.

Katie works exclusively with natural, organic fibres from ethical sources. Many works embrace upcycling and make use of remnants, off cuts and archival fabrics.

She only uses water based inks in her production, and is consciously introducing natural dyes while educating herself on the most environmentally positive way to create textile work.

All of Katie’s products and commissions are hand dyed, hand printed and hand stitched in her studio just outside of Edinburgh.

At the start of 2025, Katie completed a period of research and development into polychromatic natural dye printing, funded by Creative Scotland. You can read more here.

In March 2024 Katie was selected by Craft Scotland to show new work at the 20th edition of Collect.

Katie enjoyed her first solo show in 2023 at Sierra Metro, Edinburgh.

Katie has enjoyed working with some fantastic stores, most notably creating a limited edition collection of screen printed kitchen linens for department store Heal’s. Her bespoke cushions have been commissioned by interior designers in London and UK-wide, and her fashion prints have appeared at London Fashion Week and beyond. She welcomes bespoke commissions and commercial collaborations; you can view her previous work for private and commercial clients here.