About

From her East London studio, British artist and maker Zoë Lucia Gorringe — founder of Studies of Blue World — handcrafts sensitive, poetic accessories for both the person and the home.

Her work finds beauty in the mundane and the melancholy, with each piece capturing quiet, intimate — often insignificant — moments.

Each item is handmade and hand-embroidered, adding a charmingly unique irregularity that reflects the time, care, and the quiet intention behind it.

Sourcing vintage, surplus and deadstock fabrics wherever possible — along with sustainable textiles from heritage mills — SOB World takes a thoughtful, holistic approach to sustainable luxury. Every offcut is repurposed, and each decision made with care for both people and the environment. This slow, intentional process is as much about storytelling as it is about design.

Zoë’s work is a quiet contribution toward environmental and social equality, offering small, meaningful gestures in a shifting world.

A portrayal of a unique spirit, values and inner world.

@studiesofblue – Artist Bio

Painting from my home studio in London, I’m drawn to melancholy — with an affection for sadness that quietly shapes everything I create. My work is sensitive and poetic, seeking beauty in the mundane and the overlooked. Each piece captures quiet, intimate — often insignificant — moments, held with a tender, slightly amused gaze.

I’m a self-taught artist. At school, art and English were the only subjects I truly connected with — the only ones that felt like mine. That creative thread led me into fashion, where I now work as a designer. But painting has remained my most personal and instinctive form of expression.

I mostly paint portraits, though flowers sometimes appear too. I like to blur the lines between painting and poetry, infatuation and memory. Every work feels like a small, meaningful gesture — an offering to a world that never stands still.

I grew up in suburban middle England with a difficult, traumatic childhood. As an adult, I’ve moved through periods of anxiety, depression, and agoraphobia. I’m incredibly shy, mildly face-blind, and often afraid. These fragments of my past find their way into my work — lingering in the expressions I paint, adding a sense of distance, introspection, and quiet vulnerability.

Each print made using sustainable paper, by a local maestro.