Christopher Pearson is of the new generation of artists who is pioneering the field of digital interfacing and motion graphics. Inspired by the famous William Morris Willow Boughs design of 1887, Pearson used this iconic pattern as a starting point to create an extraordinary animated wallpaper that was first shown at his Royal College of Art degree show in 2006. Since then he has expanded the concept by introducing more sequences and extending it to cover an 8m wall by using three projectors for the British Airways First Galleries Lounge dining area in Terminal 5. The animated wallpaper installation, Willow Boughs, now gently morphs and slowly spreads and grows across the entire wall behind the diners; humming birds fly in to capture the blossoms, dandelion seeds disperse in the wind, and the grasses transform into underwater reeds with jellyfish emerging between them.

Inspired by the Morris & Co. Willow Boughs design contained within the Archive of Arthur Sanderson & Sons

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