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Barbara Weeks
http://www.barbaraweeks.com/
 After teaching Textiles in schools in London, Barbara moved to rural Hertfordshire. She now teaches City and Guilds courses in Patchwork and Quilting at Missenden Abbey in the UK and in Athens, Greece.
This design led course keeps her focused on enabling students to develop their own style with confidence and she is delighted that her students have won prestigious prizes at the Festival of Quilts.
Barbara has also developed an incurable attraction to felt making and her current quilts often feature this in layers, revealed by sheer painted silks. 2010 will mark the fourth year of making Journal Quilts, exploring imagery from the Great Barrier Reef, where her daughter, a marine biologist, is based.
She has exhibited widely in the UK and Europe and has commissions in private collections as well as such diverse locations as a school, a hospital and the pub chain, Wetherspoons! Her quilt based on the iconic London Gherkin was the inspiration for the Glass Quilt, currently on display at the Quilt Museum, York.
Barbara is an active member of the QGBI and was a member of the Judges Organising Team for the Festival of Quilts from 2005 -9
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Bonnie McCaffery
http://bonniemccaffery.com/
 Bonnie is the author of “Fantasy Fabrics”, “Fantasy Floral Quilts” and “Portrait Quilts: Painted Faces You Can Do”. She also has 2 DVDs – “Bobbin Play with Bonnie” and “Painted Face for Beginners – Workshop on DVD.”
Her work explores creative use of fabric by capturing various things under a layer of tulle.
Her newest works explore painting faces on fabric and incorporating these faces into her quilts.
McCaffery travels and teaches her techniques throughout the United States as well as in Europe.
She is the 1998 recipient of the Jewel Pearce Patterson Scholarship (for a trip to Innsbruck, Austria to attend the International Quilt Expo).
Numerous project and articles have been published in the $100,000 Quilting Challenge Magazine, McCall’s Quilting, American Quilters Society Magazine, Quilting International, Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine, Craftworks, and Quilting Arts Magazine.
She has appeared twice on Simply Quilts and currently produces FREE VidCasts on her website |
Brenda Henning
http://www.bearpawproductions.com/
 Brenda became a compulsive quilter in the mid-80s.
As a “stay-at-home”
mom, quilting was an avenue that provided a creative outlet.
She began to teach quilt making in 1988. Writing and self-publishing that work have been byproducts of the teaching experience. Brenda is the author of
30+ books and the creator of Triangulations. She also has a DVD
“Mastering the Mariner’s Compass”.
Brenda’s teaching style is very interactive and energetic. She prefers
to move from student to student, providing individual attention to
everyone according to his/her personal need.
Her goal is to share as
much information as possible during the day’s class, withholding
nothing.
Brenda’s clear and concise instructions make even her most
challenging designs “do-able” for the average quilter. Students often
comment about the relaxed atmosphere of the classroom.
Brenda currently lives and works in Anchorage, Alaska.
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Cynthia Corbin
http://www.cynthiacorbin.com/
 Cynthia remembers her grandmother’s quilts. They were not lovely, but pure utilitarian weigh you down and keep you warm coverings. Her grandmother worked with a collection of fabrics salvaged from years of clothing. Her quilts told stories and evoked feelings, connecting to a family’s history. That connection has influenced Cynthia’s choice to express something unique to herself and to her own time.
Cynthia sees her work as an eclectic personal expression based on the classical form of the quilt. Drawing on her love of both folk art and abstract art, she explores dyeing and painting, intensive machine quilting, and a problem solving, seat of the pants approach to quilt construction. She lectures and teaches nationally, applying her passion to the development of each student’s individual voice.
As an artist, Cynthia has devoted herself to extensive study, working to deepen her understanding of the processes that drive her work.
As a teacher, she encourages her students in the search for uniqueness and authenticity in their own work.
Cynthia currently works in her home studio in Woodinville, Washington
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Gail Lawther
www.gaillawther.co.uk
 Gail has always stitched - she literally can’t remember a time when she couldn’t sew, as her mother taught her to use a needle and thread when she was very young. She focused first of all on embroidery, by hand and machine, and when she began working as an editor after graduation she built up a portfolio of freelance stitching projects alongside her editorial work.
These two strands of Gail’s professional life came together when she was invited to write her first stitching book; after several books on different aspects of embroidery she was asked to research and write a book on basic quilting techniques - and found her textile ‘home.’
Gail teaches and exhibits extensively in the U K and in various other countries; her pieces have won numerous awards at quilt shows, and she has written several quilting books. Although she works in lots of different techniques she is particularly known for variations of her favourite, stained glass patchwork, and is always finding ways of incorporating different fabrics and embellishments.
Gail and her husband Chris fell in love with New Zealand on their first visit, and couldn’t wait to come back a few years later. During that first trip she taught at the Auckland Symposium and in Dunedin, and in Blenheim on her second trip. The visits inspired Gail’s recent series of quilts, Glimpses of New Zealand, and she will be bringing the quilts with her to form part of the exhibition at the Remarkable Symposium.
In spring last year Gail and Chris moved into a new home near the South Downs on the south coast of England; from her studio she can glimpse the hills, and is only a mile or so from the sea - a constant source of inspiration
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Hollis Chatelain
http://www.hollisart.com/
 Hollis Chatelain was born and raised in Pennsylvania, but lived fourteen years of her adult life overseas in Switzerland and in four West African countries.
At the end of 1996, she moved back to the United States.
Her current studio and home are in Hillsborough, North Carolina.
Hollis’ educational background is in design and photography.
She has worked in the arts in one form or another since 1976.
Hollis started her career as a textile artist in Africa.
Her interest was sparked by the richness and beauty of African fabrics which are ever so integrated into the everyday life of Africans.
Her distinctive use of colors and imagery, as well as her dye-painted scenes of multicultural life, have brought her international recognition.
Hollis’ work can be found in public and private collections in Europe, Asia, South America, Africa, and North America.
In addition to creating her textile art, Hollis frequently juries art or quilt shows, and she lectures and leads workshops on drawing, color, dye painting, quilting, and West African textiles |
Jan Krentz
http://www.jankrentz.com
 Jan lives with her husband in Poway, California U S A.
Jan is a nationally recognised quilt instructor, author and designer. She was the winner of the 1998 Teacher of the Year award.
Her motivating workshops are packed with practical tips, techniques and methods to insure success for class participants.
Jan is the author of Lone Star Quilts and Beyond, Hunter Star Quilts and Beyond and Diamond Quilts and Beyond. |
Jane Sassaman
http://www.janesassaman.com
 Jane began to quilt in 1980. She found that these “soft paintings” satisfied the draftsman, the craftsman and the artist in her. Consequently, she is now a dedicated (some say “obsessed”) quilt artist.
Her work has been shown in many national and international art quilt exhibits, including Quilt National 1989 through 2005 and Contemporary American Quilts, the first major exhibit of American art quilts in England. Her quilt “Willow” was named as one of the hundred best American quilted of the century. Jane is also the author of “The Quilted Garden”. The book includes twenty years of her work and exercises for making nature-inspired quilts. In 2004 and 2008, Jane was also nominated for Quilt Teacher of the Year.
Jane’s love for historic decorative arts can be seen in all facets of her work, but it is especially evident in the exuberant fabric she is currently designing for FreeSpirit. Her designs are oversized and colorful and have been coined as “William Morris on anti-depressants”. They are created for quilts, wearables and home decorating.
Distinguished for their meticulous craftsmanship, bold graphic style and bright colors, Jane’s “fabric constructions” are unique. Her quilts and fabrics can be found in private and corporate collections throughout the country
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Jeannette DeNicolis Meyer
http://www.jdmeyer.com
 Jeannette DeNicolis Meyer lives and make quilts in Portland, Oregon, where she teaches in the Studio School at the Oregon College of Art and Craft.
In the US, her work has been shown in a number of museums, including the Bellevue Arts Museum, the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, and the Contemporary Crafts Museum and Gallery.
Internationally her quilts have traveled to France, Japan, Costa Rica and New Zealand, where they were featured at the Centre of Contemporary Art in Christchurch as part of the Christchurch Arts Festival in 2007.
She has served as a juror for American fiber arts exhibits and is the co-editor of Speaking in Cloth: 6 Quilters, 6 Voices.
Her work is included in 500 Art Quilts and she has written for fiber art magazines in the US, the UK, and New Zealand.
She was awarded a residency at the Christchurch Arts Centre in 2007 and has lectured and taught workshops in Canada and across the United States and is thrilled to be returning to New Zealand to teach at her third national Symposium. |
Karin Hellaby
www.karinhellaby.com
 Karin was born in the north-east of England of Norwegian parents. She now lives in Suffolk, UK and is the owner of one of the UK’s leading quilt shops – Quilters Haven. In 1998 Karin won the Michael Kile Award, International Retailer of the year, awarded by the Houston Quilt Market/Festival organisers.
Karin loves travelling, and has enjoyed teaching at International quilt markets and festivals in the UK, USA, Canada, New Zealand, Europe, and the United Arab Emirates. In 2006, 2007and 2010, Karin was invited to teach at the largest outdoor quilt show in the world, an annual event in Sister’s, Oregon, where she had a solo display of her quilts.
In 2005, Karin was approached by a specialist holiday company, Arena Travel, to advise on quilting holidays. This teaching venture has taken her on river cruises down the Rhine and Seine as well as beautiful venues in France, Tuscany and Spain.
Her first four wonderful resource books bring quilt making into the 21st century offering students multi- techniques within new designs. Karin’s workshops illustrate her philosophy well - several types of patchwork taught and sewn in one class and then stitched into an original pattern design, very achievable and lots of fun!
Recently, Karin has been working on a Sew Simple series of books which concentrate on one technique. So far the series has covered: Logs, Pineapple and Attic Windows. Her simple Pineapple technique astounded both shop owners and students alike! Karin is working on the latest book in the Sew Simple series, Pineapple Plus, which further develops her unique technique
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Larkin Van Horn
http://www.larkinart.com/
 Larkin Van Horn is a mixed-media textile artist working in the areas of art quilts, beadwork, wearable art, and liturgical art. Each piece represents the combination of her imagination, inspiration from the world around her, and her strong sense of drama.
The intense forms and colors of her work are sometimes a response to the grey Pacific Northwest winters, other times they reflect the natural energy of spring and summer. Whether exploring the variety of textures found on the island - the waves and tidelines, wind-bent trees, strata and fissures in the rocks on the seashore - or the inner landscape of emotions, spirit, and self, it's all about texture.
Larkin wants her work to have as much interest for the fingertips as for the eye - hence the decision to work with fabric, fiber, beads, and found objects. She is also drawn to the alchemy and serendipity of dyeing and painting her own fabrics and yarns to create her "paintbox" of materials.
Larkin is in demand as a teacher and lecturer among quilters, fiber artists, and beadworkers, has written a book, "Beading On Fabric", and has published patterns for wearable art garments and fabric vessels. Her work has been displayed and won honors both regionally and nationally, and she lives on Whidbey Island in Washington State with her husband/photographer/webmaster, Van.
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Marie Roper
http://www.marieroper.co.uk/
 Marie was brought up in a family of stitchers so it was inevitable that her hobbies would include some textile based activities. After her children went to school she decided to move into a more professional sphere and studied for City & Guilds in Fashion intending to teach evening school dress making. However, her real love was embroidery so after fashion came Embroidery and adult teaching courses. This was the beginning of a long and happy second career.
Marie has since specialised in patchwork and quilting and creative computer design for textiles, achieving qualifications from City & Guilds in both. More recently an interest in dolls has been re-awakened and a new craft of wet felting added.
Her work has been exhibited in the UK and around the world on several occasions and with the textile group SiX she has had work shown in several European countries, Canada and the USA.
After many years teaching in a college Marie now works as an on-line tutor assessor in several levels of patchwork and quilting City & Guilds courses as well as creative computing and sketch book courses. She also offers workshops and talks to groups in the UK and abroad.
Her own creative life is very dear to her and she tries to spend as much time as possible in her studio in the rural county of Herefordshire
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Paula Golden
http://www.paulagolden.com/
 Born in southern California, Paula grew up in Germany when her father took a teaching position overseas. “Using fiber as a creative means to communicate is intrinsic to my very being. It links me to the continuum of men and women who have stitched their lives in fiber to provide warmth and nourishment for the body and soul.” Her passion for the stories behind the quilts is a leading theme in her work.
Selected as “2001 Teacher of the Year” by The Professional Quilter Magazine Paula has been quilting since the early 1970s and teaching for over twenty years including the International Quilt Festival, Houston. Her quilts, patterns and articles have been published in magazines and books.
Paula is president of the Board of Directors, Virginia Quilt Museum and co-author of the book, “Quilts of Virginia: Birth of America through the Eye of a Needle. She trained as a medical technologist and recently completed her Master of Independent Study in print-making and surface design.
Paula is certified in administering the Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator and incorporates the concept that understanding oneself increases the creative process.
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Yvonne Brown
http://www.yvonnebrown.co.uk/
 Yvonne lives in rural Norfolk, where her husband farms, and works in her studio at home. She travels to teach throughout the UK – and beyond.
Yvonne comes from an art based background where her first loves are painting and art history, but she is passionate about textiles and is fascinated by textured surfaces. She likes to combine all her interests in her work. She is constantly exploring ways to use textiles as an artistic medium in an exciting and experimental way, to obtain images that have a tactile and, at times, a three dimensional surface, with a richness and depth not often possible by more conventional means. She produces mixed media pieces, combining natural and synthetic fibres with paper and found objects. She dyes and paints most of her fabrics but also likes to use commercial batiks. She works mostly with the sewing machine in free-machine mode but enjoys embellishing her pieces with hand embroidery and beading and, of course, she has to use her soldering iron and heat gun for a little bit of melting and burning – all great fun!
Her inspiration is found in the natural world and from art historical sources.
Yvonne is looking forward to returning to New Zealand where she and her husband had such a fabulous holiday 2 years ago
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