Rayna Gillman works in mixed media on fiber, using a variety of
surface design, collage, and printmaking techniques to integrate
text and images into her work.
She made her first scrap quilt in 1974, when she fell in love with
an antique quilt she could not afford. Over the years, she began to
print her own fabrics and became intrigued by the textures and
design potential of such items as corrugated cardboard,
construction fence, and kitchen tools. Today, using found objects
from the house, the hardware store, and even the street, she
paints, dyes, and discharges, working in layers to add complexity
to her highly recognizable fabrics.
Noted for her instinctive sense of color and her improvisational
approach to design, she encourages students to work spontaneously,
to experiment, and to use the question "what if?" to guide them.
She has taught hundreds of students not only to print their own
fabrics but also to use those fabrics creatively in their
quilts.
Rayna was a featured artist on the TV show Simply Quilts and has
written for Quilting Arts Magazine. In addition, her work has been
widely published. She was a juror for the national Art Quilts
Lowell show and teaches internationally. Her fabric and quilts have
been exhibited in museums and galleries around the country and are
in private collections in the United States, France, and Belgium.
You can see her quilts on the web at www.studio78.net and
www.galleryfxv.com. She invites you to visit her blog at
studio78notes.blogspot.com.
June 08 In Create Your Own Hand-printed Cloth, the fabrics are
wonderful and inspiring, the instructions are easy to follow, and
the ideas are abundant. Not only does Rayna teach readers the
basics, she provides them with the information and tools needed to
take their fabrics as far as creatively possible. Rayna draws on
both 'standard' methods and new ones in her printing process. She
also uses many materials that readers may have right at hand but
wouldn't necessarily have thought to use in printing. With Rayna's
lists of possible printing tools and the variety of printing
techniques, readers are sure to find their way to wonderfully
unique fabrics.
*Quilting Arts*
Jan 09 What we have here is a fabulous work-shop-in-a-book about
how to alter fabrics with paint, dyes, wax, and discharge agents
Art quilter goddess and fellow New Jerseyan, Rayna Gillman uses a
tool box filled with brayers, stamps, homemade prints, found
objects, and more to make the fabric she uses in her creations. I
don't know about you, but if I were to jump into creative lessons
offered by Rayna, I'd call up a bunch of my amigas and set up one
side of the sewing room for all of these playtime exercises and the
other side of the room for the food. Once you dive into these
techniques, you'll be committed for a while because the set-up and
clean-up could be bigger than Guy Ritchie's divorce settlement. So,
make a playdate out of it with your buds and get jiggy with it..
Should you but it? Totally! Sooner or later, most quilters want to
stretch their creative wings and this book will jump start you on
that flight plan.
*Quilter's Home*
June 09 Rayna Gillman's fabric art pieces amaze the viewer with
their complexity of layers and designs. In Create your Own
Hand-Printed Cloth, Rayna shares her methods of stamping,
stenciling and otherwise marking your fabric, using objects that
can be found at hardware stores, garage sales, and even your own
junk drawers. She explains screen-printing, gelatin plates,
discharge, soy wax and much more. Surface design for fabric had
never been more fun or more rewarding.
*Machine Quilting Unlimited*
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