With works that carry a graphic, color-saturated palette using her hand printed fabric, Pat Pauly’s fiber art is seen around the world. Her textile work began in the early 1980s and was first accepted in Quilt National ’83, and has continued being shown in major exhibitions. Her fiber art’s distinction is with using a strong abstraction of natural forms and complex color combinations. Her work is in both private and public collections.
With a degree in art, and graduate work in design and fine art, Pat chose fiber art as the perfect amalgam of construction, painting and printmaking. She has taught throughout the United States, Canada, and Australia, in design and surface design. Her lectures are fast paced, funny, and often speak on the intersection of traditional quilt arts with contemporary fiber art. She brings the same pace and relaxed atmosphere to her workshops.
Often seen in exhibitions, Pat’s work is also widely published, and she has appeared in Quilting Arts televised segments. If not teaching, she is found in her studio in Rochester, New York where she has the best advantage of being surrounded by great artists as well as the beauty of the Finger Lakes.
Workshop: Mad About Motif
Level: All, with basic experience working with dyes.
Materials Fee: $70 payable at class
Pick a handful of strong motifs — from light and airy to big and bold – and use them to print spectacular fabric. Using thickened fabric dyes, we will combine motifs to create whole cloth prints, or overall prints, or some to cut later and use in fiber work. You will use your graphic motif in several printing techniques from direct drawing, to direct color application, to monoprint, to screen printing images. The class will rely on value as well as color to pull prints that relate, and graphics that will unite pieces for a strong series of works to use in quilts, clothing, or textile art . Knowledge of dye processes helpful but not critical.