Gourmet Traveller Magazine - Meet your Maker
Sydney designer Christina Mclean has been addicted to colour and pattern since she was a young girl. "I remember being enamoured by the scales on fish I used to catch with my dad, and the patterns in the leaves of the plants my mum used to grow," she says. Mclean has designed prints for leading Australian fashion designers such as Sass & Bide, Romance Was Born and Bianca Spender, but in 2014 she took a step back to start her own creative business, Trade the Mark. As a "mark maker", as she calls herself, Mclean handcrafts the likes of indigo-dyed linen napery, cheese platters and hanging planters - each ceramic piece painted with bold underglazes and then sgraffito-etched with fine, graphic lines.
Words by Maggie Scardfield.
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