Bethan Laura Wood graduated with a first class BA (Hons) in Three-Dimensional Design from the University of Brighton in 2006, and continued her education at the Royal Collage of Art where she studied under the tuition of Jurgen Bey and Martino Gamper, in the Design Product department completing in 2009. By re-contextualizing elements from existing, everyday objects, combined with research into the constituent elements of a modern city, Bethan creates new products which rediscover, explore and celebrate different attributes and aspects of the "mundane". Her work often focuses on the pattern, colouration and patination of objects, the result of the making process and subsequent traces of usage. Locality has also become an important factor to her design process, often working in response to the area in which she resides. Be it collaborating directly with local manufacturing, or reflecting elements particular to that area within the work.