Melinda
Bula
Juried Artist Member (JAM)
Location
El Dorado Hills, CA
United States
Artist Statement
My artistic journey started in college, where I worked at a fabric store on nights and weekends and studied art by day. Of course, fabrics began to influence my art. For the last 19 years, I have been traveling, teaching, and lecturing internationally at big quilt festivals and guides all about my quilt art technique. This technique is a painterly, impressionistic, stylized way to build art quilts that look like paintings but are mostly just fabrics and threads. My scissors have become my paintbrush.
I now live in Bakersfield, California, working full-time as a quilt artist. To be creative, you must spend time in the studio, which I couldn't do when teaching on the road. Now, I have changed that part of my life. I now have the luxury of spending lots of time in the studio dying fabrics, taking photos of my favorite subjects—nature, flowers, and water—and translating them into fabric art. I’m looking forward to trying new techniques and pushing myself and my art in new ways.
I now live in Bakersfield, California, working full-time as a quilt artist. To be creative, you must spend time in the studio, which I couldn't do when teaching on the road. Now, I have changed that part of my life. I now have the luxury of spending lots of time in the studio dying fabrics, taking photos of my favorite subjects—nature, flowers, and water—and translating them into fabric art. I’m looking forward to trying new techniques and pushing myself and my art in new ways.
