K. Velis Turan (b. Washington, D.C.) is a mixed media fiber artist now living and working in the Hudson Valley region of New York. Her artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Her focus may be realistic or abstract, but always intensely graphic.
She employs surface-design techniques which include silk screen printing, fabric painting, photo transfer and embellishing with free-motion quilting, hand stitching and beading on the whole-cloth surface of her work. She enjoys the “zen” of free-motion quilting – adding her signature “thread stokes” which becomes the life of each piece.
Prior to her career as a mixed media fiber artist, Velis Turan worked as an illustrator and graphic artist at Harper & Row Publishers and later became the art director of a monthly publication, Recreation News in Washington, DC. She has curated fiber arts exhibitions and was the Visual Arts Director for the Greene County (NY) Council on the Arts. She is currently the Advertising Director of Fiber Art Now Magazine during the day but a Fiber Artist always.