PALOMA CASTAÑO SANCHEZ

Nationality : Spanish

Tel: +31 (0)6 15473318
E-mail: pcspalo[at]hotmail[dot]com

Her work is very personal. Paloma improvises and allows herself to loose control and to see what happens. Taking a pice of textile and doing something until she finds something she likes.
The human body is always the starting point. She is really fascinated by all the ways you can highlight, distort and transform the natural silhouette of the body or an object.
She builds her garments by hand from a couple of basic elements which she multiplies and attatches to each other in different ways to discover the shape that she wants.
She loves the freedom to create her own fabric while working. For her this is the absolute challenge; all the levels of skills you have to pass before you can even think about starting to improvise.
At the end of all the research, training and experimentation, Paloma likes to end in a dynamic and active creation.

STUDIES

2000/2003
Degree in Engineering in Industrial Design at university “Cardenal Herrera C.E.U”, Valencia, Spain.

2003/2004
Silk-print course in “Escuela de Artes y Oficios” (Art academy), Valencia, Spain.

2004/2006
2 years at Bacherol course at the “Design Academy Eindhoven”, Leisure and Identity departments.

WORK EXPERIENCE

February-Agoust 2006
Internship in Meesters and Van der Park, Eindhoven, Holland.
Developing concepts and models, special work for the red cross Eindhoven

October-May 2006/2007
Designer in the City Hall of Binalessa, Valencia, Spain.
New interior projects in the City Hall and the design of the layout of the town theater for the diferent events that were happening at this time

April-november 2007
Trend/Forecaster in Keraben, Valencia, Spain.
Is the second biggest ceramic company in Spain, and my work actually was to look for new trends in materials, colors and texturas.

2008
Interior design projects for Wonbedrijf, Eindhoven.
Carpet for Menno van Coehoornlaan
Entrance interior for the appartement complexe Hendrik and keyzer state

2007/ 2010
Studio Nacho Carbonell, Eindhoven, Holland.
Working in the workshop developing the new design products