Juliette Eckel lives as Surface Designer and Fiber Artist  in Germany and France.

After studying Arts and Literature, she became a teacher of Literature in adult education. In the beginning of the 80th she started with traditional Patchwork as a hobby. In year 2000 she extended her Quilting by adding techniques like dying and printing, machine embroidery and hand embroidery. To enlarge her skills she participated in workshops of Else van Baarle, Cherylin Martin, Lonni Rossi, Dijanne Cevaal. Since 2008 she works in her own studio, where she teaches dying, printing, machine embroidery and surface design.

In 2008 she presented her textile cycle about the virgin mother, a touring exhibition, travelling through churches and monasteries. In these exhibitions are presented a combination of textile pictures of the virgin mother and ruminant texts (old and new prayers, poems…).

For her work the combination of old and modern printing techniques, text and image, the rhythm of repetition and the variation results in a meditative, labour intensive state in which design and image becomes both symbolic language and structure.

More about me under: www.juliette-eckel.com