Mimi Soan

Mimi Soan is an artist living and working from her home studio in South East London. Mimi works in a range of different media including, illustration, textiles and street art.

She has an inherent love of animals that inspire the creation of a range of soft, characterful creatures. Using up-cycled materials such as shrunken jumpers, blankets and other woollen articles. She enjoys including small details like the cuff, buttonholes or neckline, that give clues to the materials previous life.

Although a pattern is used, each creature is uniquely different and has an individual character of its own. This range of Fox and Badger plushies has been created exclusively for Simple Shape.

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BY-ME, KATIE: Q & A

Coming full circle with Katie Mitchell. Read our Q&A. Katie will be teaching a macrame workshop on Thursday 2nd November at our Simple Shape Studio-Shop

MAKER Q & A: Kim Jordan

Kim Jordan is a cabinetmaker, he designs and makes furniture and other smaller pieces from his workshop in East London. He trained as an “ébéniste” in Paris and describes his work as “British Design meets French savoir-faire”. We asked 10 questions, read on…

SEWYEAH: Q & A

Our Simple Shape Studio is going to be a mass of felt, embroidery thread, beads and sequins for our Christmas Decoration Workshop. Author & presenter, Christine Leech, founder of SewYeah will be passing on her skills. We asked her 6 questions about her creative roots.

MAKER Q & A : Slow Made Goods

The gift of some carving tools prompted Ewen Brown, founder of the Norfolk based workshop Slow Made Goods, to start experimenting with wood. Now just a handful of years later, he is turning a living from it. We posed 10 questions…

BROCKLEY OPEN STUDIOS x ANNA RUIZ x SIMPLE SHAPE

We are really excited to be hosting print artist Anna Ruiz for the Brockley Open Studios, Sat 2nd & Sun 3rd July. Walk through the streets of Brockley and find local artists and makers and seize this special opportunity to buy unique works. Read on for details and a Q&A with Anna.