Jane Davila is a fiber and mixed-media artist who began her professional art career as a printmaker, specializing in etchings and intaglios. Her prints can be found in many private and corporate collections around the world, including the Lila Acheson Wallace Collection. She switched to fiber, mixed media, and art quilting in the 1990s but still incorporates many printmaking techniques, such as screen printing, block printing, gyotaku, and thermofax printing, in her work.
The experience of living in Peru in the 1980s has had a lasting impact on her appreciation for the diversity of cultural expression and iconography, which as a theme frequently shows up in her work. Repeating motifs of fish, birds, and insects reflect her ongoing fascination with nature, the environment, and human impact on both.
She teaches art quilting and surface design workshops extensively across the US as well as internationally, most recently in South Korea, Canada, and Australia.
Jane has appeared numerous times on Quilting Arts TV, shown on PBS stations nationwide. She writes about a variety of art quilting, surface design, and mixed media topics for national magazines such as Cloth, Paper, Scissors. Jane is the co-author, with Elin Waterston, of the best selling books Art Quilt Workbook & Art Quilts at Play as well as Jane Davila's Surface Design Essentials, all for C&T Publishing. Jane works out of a light-filled loft at the NEST Arts Factory in Bridgeport CT.
Jane Davila joined Pixels on July 19th, 2016.
