Aryana B. Londir Bio

Aryana B. Londir is a full time studio artist who chooses to work with hand-dyed and commercial fabrics. "It is natural for me to create my fiber constructions to integrate my fascination of line, color and composition, allowing me to compose in the larger scale I crave. I love the sensuous feel of fabric, the ease in which it is manipulated, and its ability to accept color in dye and paint."

Londir's work centers on balance, harmony and the integration of contradiction and contrast. Londir features traditional fiber materials with contemporary techniques, creating a dynamic which showcases each to its fullest potential.

Londir individually designs, constructs and finishes each piece, integrating her hand-dyed fabrics with commercially dyed materials. All of her work is machine-pieced and machine-quilted. Each piece consists of three layers: the top, cotton batting and cotton backing, which is considered the traditional method for constructing a quilt, although Londir’s work is displayed on the wall.

Londir studied textile design, fashion styling, color, and sewing construction techniques with many acclaimed teachers. The artist developed her personal style after many years of studio practice in other artistic disciplines, always returning to her first love of textiles.

Growing up in a rural area of Connecticut, Londir felt solace in the natural environs of wooded areas, observing how things grew, changed and evolved; how brilliantly the sun shone, how lucid the colors of nature are, and how rapidly a day was able to evolve from dry to wet, grey to bright sky. Her childhood travels to New York City with her family exposed her to a different world of geometric shapes in the massive buildings of the city skyline; it is in this space of her imagination that she combines the two contrasting ideologies. Londir expresses the distinction between organic and industrial by her vivid use of color and texture. Line and color are the main design elements utilized to construct her imagery. Although still intrigued by the workings of urban life and its implications oh humanity, she now resides in rural Arizona, preferring the solitude and serenity of the desert to stimulate the unexplored regions of her imagination