owenstudio.co.uk
is the online platform for the work produced by designers Paul + Kayla Owen



// The duo have spent over twenty years in Art, Fashion and the Creative industries in a variety of roles from Designers, Brand Guardians to Creative Directors working with many global brands, including Benetton, Gieves & Hawkes, Hackett, Harvey Nichols, John Smedley, Timberland, Selfridges and Stella McCartney. Today they continue to design, but also consult and collaborate with many industry and academic partners, providing research and publishing outputs around the themes of fashion, identity and place.
Blind Daydreamer

Media: Digital prints  
Location: Birmingham
Year: 2015 


About the work:
A series of large format digitally printed artworks. The images are a response to the psychological and emotional reactions to chemotherapy treatment. These digital extracts are experimental images from Paul’s [milestone] project. The work intends to abstract in it’s nature and is envisaged to pulse and move.
Play | Travelling without moving

Media: Digital prints  
Location: Liverpool / Rhos-on-Sea
Year: 2022-2024 


About the work:
Covid 19 | with the challenges of restricted movement in the real world, ‘play | travelling without moving’ signified a chance to explore the barriers of the still and mundane. Hypnotized by the sense and perception of landscapes and horizons, imagery became transformed into a series of abstract hoizontal sequences that distorted the original. Rearranged and re-edited, this highly personalised project featured a multi-layered approach and favoured the un-predictability of photography. 

Architectonic II

Media: Lightbox (Durotran print)
Location: Liverpool
Year: 2019


About The Work:
The parallel practices between fashion and other design disciplines. In particular, investigating and analysing the cross fertilization of materials, processes and methodologies between fashion and architecture, which resulted in the design, production and exhibition of a leather womenswear collection - Architectonic (2009) - underpinned by and influenced from research findings, which explored creative pattern cutting and experimented with leather and suede fabrication and surface.

Milestone [for cancer]

Media: Projection 
Location: Manchester
Year: 2018






About the work:
The Milestone for Cancer project was born from the idea that after receiving the ‘all clear’, Paul wanted to document and share his experience of living with cancer. Milestone [for cancer] was produced in response to that idea.

Milestone is not a journal, yet it does contain extracts from his personal diary – the day he began Chemotherapy. The book features written and visual elements that showcase experimental image making It acknowledges the aesthetics and expressive possibilities of typography, colour and the digital image. Ultimately, this is a hybrid of art, science and technology — an artistic representation of whats happening inside the body during chemotherapy treatment to bring new and accessible narratives to the ‘ugliness’ of cancer. The dynamic visuals try to evoke a sense of energythrough fluidity and light. They represent the power and control of medicine.

Paul hopes it goes beyond just experimental imagery and letter forms to beleives these visuals can interact and create new powerful connections, meanings, and challenge the perception that cancer is always ‘ugly’.