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HYLAND Deborah Bowness, who trained in surface pattern and textile design at the University of Leeds and the Royal College of Art, makes trompe l'oeuil wallpapers from photographic images, some in black and white, others in color. In her Artist's Collection, colors are mixed by hand then applied to the paper by hand silk- screen printing and/or hand painting. Every wallpaper drop is signed and numbered. Her early assays, at the Royal College in the 1990s, challenged preconceived notions of wallpaper, eschewing "the claustrophobic interiors of the previous decades, when wallpapering an entire room with repeat patterns and a coordinating border was the norm." Her papers are not meant to dominate a room, but to interact playfully with the objects and furniture around it. Hence her clever "Genuine Fake Bookshelf" paper, launched in 2002; other trompe l'oeuil patterns include "Wallpaper Frocks", "Utility Chairs" and most recently, "New Paper Swags" which transform the most prosaic bedroom into a silken Hollywood boudoir. Deborah Bowness