Kim Kirchstein
Owner & Designer of Leopold Designs
"I absolutely love surface design, and finding new ways of creating it. If I had my dream studio, I would dabble in a number of techniques!" - Kim Kirschstein
Kim Kirchstein is an artist specializing in hand-dyed batiked silk. She calls her business Leopold Designs, named for a big orange tabby cat she had for 16 years. Kim received a BFA in Surface Design from East Carolina School of Art, where she learned batik, screen printing (hand-cut and photographic), Shibori, direct-dye painting on fabric, and a variety of other methods of putting pattern and color onto fabric. As it is now, in her upstairs bedroom-turned-studio, she's really been enjoying batik work and exploring new ways to get new line, texture, and color from it.
You can see several of my works, as well as many works in progress here: www.leopolddesigns.com
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