Judy Langille

Judy Langille's work explores a variety of surface-design techniques to create art cloth and fabric collages. She uses thermofax screens, silk screens, mono printing, and torn paper resist in conjunction with thickened dyes and discharge paste to create fabrics that are distinctive in design. Her fiber art has been juried into several national shows including Quilt National and Fine Focus.

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“I just was always drawn to fabric. I started doing this about 27 years ago when my children were really little. I was a painter and I could not figure out how to have an easel in a room with little kids. So I took a traditional quilting class and loved it. But it was when I found out about all of these dyeing techniques and things like that, that I really sort of found exactly what I was looking for. I wasn't really good at the traditional hand piecing and hand stitching and 10 stitches to an inch type thing. So that wasn't what I wanted from it.

And there's a big need. When you submit your work to these shows you just have some kind of an affirmation that someone else thinks what you're doing is valid. It's really important especially because I go down to my basement, it's a little gloomy, and some days I just have to say ‘go Judy, go! Go down there now!’ And it does keep an artist going.”