Vivien Carolyn Reinert is a mixed-media artist working with colour, texture, pattern and material to explore mood, perception and emotional atmosphere. Her practice is driven by a deep sensitivity to composition - how balance, ratio and nuance shape the way an image, object or space is perceived.

Upon graduating from Central Saint Martins (BA Hons Textiles, 2019) and the Royal College of Art (MA Textiles, 2021), she worked for design houses such as Liberty and Conran and Partners before focusing on her own practice.

Since 2024 she has been working as an artist full-time, exploring the intersection of craft and art in her London-based studio.

Her practice explores the often-underestimated power of colour and visual tone - how subtle shifts in palette, texture or form can transform meaning, identity and emotional impact. Thematically, her work dissects the significance of public spaces - non-places - and how the way people move through and interact within these settings speaks to larger tensions between hyper-connectivity online and disconnection in the physical world.

Mediating on the way we move through these spaces absentmindedly, she seeks to draw awareness to the beauty of slowing down - of taking in the intricate tapestry of the mundane and the simplest encounters. Her work aims to re-enchant people with the overlooked details of everyday life.

Her most recent body of work, Underground, extends this inquiry directly onto London's transport network: a large-scale, site-responsive textile installation built around four Tube stations that frame Soho, translating train doors, escalators and platform architecture into hand-quilted, three-dimensional textile panels. Supported by the 2026 Eaton Fund Award, the piece is showing at Smallest Gallery in Soho until mid-October.

Alongside her studio practice, Vivien collaborates with brands and creative teams to refine colour, mood and visual tone - helping visual identities and creative projects feel more emotionally precise, nuanced and cohesive, while maintaining restraint and clarity.

Vivien has exhibited as part of London Design Festival and London Craft Week, and was commissioned by Double Decker, hospitality curators for Cunard, to create two permanent textile artworks alongside an elevator panel and hallway wall design for the newest ship of the fleet, Queen Anne.