Featured Artist : Hillary Miller

My name is Hillary Miller, and I’ve been happily painting with Dharma’s silk products since 2002.  Featured here are original hand-painted silk scarves, shawls, banners and tallitot (Jewish Prayer Shawls). Silk painting is my newest medium – I also paint in watercolor, oil and pastel. I received a Bachelor's Degree in Art, with emphasis in drawing and painting as well as illustration in 1984, and a Master of Fine Art in drawing and painting in 1988, both from Cal. State University of Fullerton.  I live in Southern California in a beautiful wooded canyon with a lovely studio attached to my home.

I use Dharma’s silk satin charmeuse fabric, shawls and scarves for most of my pieces.  I find that Pebeo’s water-soluble gutta is a great "green" gutta, as no dry cleaning is needed to remove it. I sometimes add concentrated silk dyes to the gutta for colored lines.  As I love rich colors, my preferred dyes are Dupont, Sennelier Tinfix and Pebeo steam-set silk dyes.  I employ an easy and versatile silk stretching system of PVC pipes and joints along with Dharma’s Chinese suspension hooks, which I learned from David Ludwig, another fine Dharma Featured Artist.