Rayna Gillman
Whose Woods
17" h x 39" w
Detail photo below
To visit Rayna's website, click here.
Dyed, batiked with soy wax, screenprinted, stitched.
It doesn't matter what time of day or what season: the woods behind my house are
my joy and an unconscious inspiration that emerges,unplanned, in my work.
While I call them "my woods," they belong to someone else. But who?
Rayna Gillman is a nationally known artist and surface design teacher who
infuses her students with a sense of joy and experimentation, using the phrase
"what if?" as a guide.
Author of Create Your Own Hand-Printed Cloth, published by C&T, she has
been a featured artist on HGTV's Simply Quilts and on the PBS series, Quilting Arts
TV.
She is on the Arts Workshop faculty of the Newark Museum and has taught at
Peters Valley Craft Center, Quilt Surface Design Symposium in Columbus, OH, the
SDA/SAQA Conference, and at art centers and fiber guilds across the U.S. She is a
member of the Surface Design Association, Studio Art Quilt Associates, and the Art
Cloth Network.
Her work is in private collections here and in France, the UK, and Belgium. It can be
seen on her website and on her blog.
Whose Woods
Detail