Terri Haugen

A full time batik artist since I graduated from high school in 1976, my work started simply. I was self-taught and living in rural Michigan. A time before the Internet, it seemed like I was the only artist using batik as a fine art medium. I slowly developed my traditional batik from 3 dye baths to over 30. My work mostly consisted of what surrounded me and was most important, my children and nature. My work documented the growth of both.

In 1986 Reader’s Digest found my work. From there my work made it to other publications, covers and posters. Then on to television where I could spread the awareness of fine art batik to a wider audience.

About 10 years ago I felt the need to stretch the limits of my traditional methods of batik. Having many ideas over the years, I took the time to execute some of them. My first one was layered batiks. A dimensional batik using 2 separate batiks one on top of the other. I find I can create movement and depth using this technique.

My last 5 years have been spent developing my mixed media batik and creating batik art quilts. My mixed media batik starts with many different batik papers collaged on the canvas with paint and found objects applied. The batik art quilts are layered silk and cotton batiks stitched and embellished.

I still live in rural Michigan, where I enjoy my studio and gallery in a resort town. I travel as much as I can, for fun, inspiration and new art for my gallery. I’ve been very lucky to have my art work collected and exhibited all over the world. I teach when I have time. My newest demonstration of layered batik can be seen on HGTV in the US. This year I illustrated my first children’s book, wrote several art related magazine articles and exhibited in New York, Pennsylvania, Santa Fe, Ohio, Wisconsin, Denver, Michigan, Chicago, Duluth and Houston.