Victoria Topping has worked as an artist and illustrator since graduating with a BA in Illustration in 2008. Her pieces are created through building up multiple textures and images and combining these to develop a distinct visual language, using recurring motifs. 

Her work is heavily influenced by music, from the styling and art direction of 1970s Jazz and Soul to the passion and ebullience of Gospel and Disco. Victoria takes musical aspects and work to synthesise them into visual form, working towards distilling the vibrancy of music into a ‘music for the eyes’. More broadly, she aims to impregnating her work with its own unique soul, through harnessing a blend of spirituality, culture, the cosmos and mother earth.

She also designed our Signature Polkadot on our PolkaPants!

Where do you live: Bath uk

Where do you work: In a lovely studio that used to be a old malthouse

How did you get into art? Through my mum who is a wallpaper designer and printer. I was always surrounded by creativity growing up

What item of food best describes your personality: A lasagne, a comfort food with layers that is always better with lots of wine in it

Favourite thing to do on your day off (apart from sleep!): Tend to my vegetables in my allotment 

What Polka’s do you have: All of them! cant live without my polkas

Top recommendation for food in your city: Pintxo. Its a excellent tapas spot with a beautiful sherry garden out the back

Biggest inspiration: All my wonderful lady friends who are running successful business 

Instagram/ twitter account: @victoriatoppingart

 

Vix wears Signature Polkadot PolkaPants