Diane Carver
Diane Carver has
been painting on silk for twenty-some years. Previously, she had
studied drawing, design, and painting (with oil and acrylics). She has
also been designing and sewing clothing for many more years.
After
discovering how to incorporate her painted silk into quilted pieces
(quilting by both machine and hand), she was off and running.
She finds the
wonderful tactile feel of a finished, quilted piece
deeply gratifying. She has also made twenty bedsize quilts for
her
children and many grandchildren (out of cotton pieces arranged in her
own designs).
She has been associated with nine shops in Northern California and Texas over the past twenty years. In addition to her quilted works, she sold silk pillows, wallhangings, vests, scarves, and jackets, all of them of handpainted silk.
You can contact Diane Carver by emailing her at carverdb@sbcglobal dot net.
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Her painted silk pieces
are all hand-painted with brushes on white
silk, using the Serti or the watercolor technique with permanent
silk-fabric paints. The finished paintings are then quilted,
using
batting and a backing fabric, and the edges are bound. She loves fabric and painting equally, and she is happiest when combining the two. |
She has been associated with nine shops in Northern California and Texas over the past twenty years. In addition to her quilted works, she sold silk pillows, wallhangings, vests, scarves, and jackets, all of them of handpainted silk.
You can contact Diane Carver by emailing her at carverdb@sbcglobal dot net.
Diane Carver's
Quilts
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"Debating
Oysters"
19 inches x 18 inches  |
"Debating Oysters" is a whole-cloth silk painting with painted silk borders and binding, cotton batting and backing, and machine quilting
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"Bird Of Paradise"
41 inches x 17
inches
"Bird Of Paradise" was made using a whole cloth silk painting with painted silk borders and binding, cotton batting and backing and quilted by machine.