LAURENCE LLEWELYN-BOWEN ART
ART APPLIED
Alongside a stratospheric media career LLB assiduously built a home design brand using his very particular eye for colour, pattern and his exquisite abilities as a draughtsman to create product that remains Iconic. The influences are varied and multilayered. His youthful enthusiasm for Pre Raphaelitism still resonates with elegant references to pre raphaelite adjacent designers like William Morris Sidney Mawson and AWN Pugin.
There’s also plenty of the contemporary in an LLB product; Fashion and Cineamatography cast particularly extravagant aesthetic shadows in his applied art oeuvre.
One of LLBs largest scale collaborations is his longstanding association with Blackpools iconic yearly illuminations. Since 2010 he has worked as the events Creative Curator overseeing some of Blackpools biggest and Brightest illuminated features as well as bespoke designing a fabulous portfolio of incandescent art.
LLB’s fabulously theatrical aesthetic proved the perfect stepping off point for the highly acclaimed production design he created for the Barn theatre’s retelling of the Three Muskateers Story. Trois was a riotous rock n roll romp for which LLB created costume designs that reincarnated 17th century fashion with an 80s post punk edge.
2026 marks the third year that LLB has been commissioned to create a bespoke pattern for the royal British legion Poppy Day product collections.
