The design for “Boats for Hire” came as a result of a walk one spring morning along the Thames near Cookham. After a long winter, everything was vibrating with unusual colours;- fruit trees, violet,-willows, red,-water, yellow-.
In textiles it seems to me it is rather the same inversions of color & form that create a notable design. The artists drawing only comes to life when the colours of which it is composed are changed about by the printer in almost as haphazard a way as in a kaleidoscope to form new and unexpected harmonies. - Julian Trevelyan