Remarkable Quilled Mandalas and Geometric Paper Art
I used to think I had limitless patience when it came to paper quilling, but that was before incredibly intricate mandalas and on-edge geometric paper art created by other quillers became so popular. Inspired at least in part by Alli Bartkowski's book of thirty patterns, Quilled Mandalas, circular quilling began
peppering social media a few years ago. It's fun to see the wide array of
coils and lines that are used... people's creativity and dedication to their craft never fails to amaze! Let's take a look at these examples:
Ronald Regamey is a prolific Ontario, Canada paper artist who creates large-scale mandalas with paper strips that he cuts by hand. A Threat, shown above, measures 21 x 21 inches. His first solo exhibition is underway through August 3 at Lee Art Gallery in Orillia, Ontario. Here's a shot of another mandala by Ronald that shows the detail of central dimensional coils.
Andrea Banks of Anomaly Arts on Etsy experimented with photo editing for her cool circular mixed media piece that combines paper with metal. I admire the way she is always thinking outside the box. You'll find her on Facebook too, AnomalyArtsbyAndrea.
Here's another neat design with metallic accents... this one is by book artist and quiller Melissa Schnaible in Ohio who has a knack for creating pristine work. You just know this one gleams in person and the use of patterned papers adds interest.
Bangalore artist Ragini Gupta Chakravarty (@ginsdesk on Instagram) [edit: no longer available] is another versatile maker who draws intricate mandalas and creates quilled ones too. For this example made up of domed tight coils, she first marked the background paper with lightly penciled guidelines and used pinpricks to achieve perfect circles.
Miriam Fitzgerald Juskova in Ireland describes herself as a visual artist and paper artist with a love of geometry and mandalas. She notes that this all-white piece is a favorite design of hers although I have to say the colorful one below it is gorgeous too... plus offering prints to hang as wall art is such a smart way to extend one's work.
Hermina Fábiánné Domán of Etsy shop MinkArtDesign in Budapest has used a beautiful mix of linear and coiled shapes in this blue mandala design. Have a look at the remarkable paper lace art and dramatic on-edge vortex designs in her shop too.
Aurora of MandalaBorealis [currently not selling on Etsy] in Paris has the right idea in the prices she charges for her work... mandalas require such skill and endless hours to create. This lacy design includes carefully placed dots of white paint inspired by artistic Indian kolams. She also makes beautiful paper cut mandalas.
Zahra Ammar's Instagram feed and Etsy shop in Sacramento, California features a myriad of geometric projects... folded paper, cut paper, and quilled paper. She is another artist who utilizes a variety of techniques including watercolor and calligraphy, and explained that the Arabic lettering on this piece means 'God has willed', a phrase usually written at the foyer of a home.
Ronald Regamey is a prolific Ontario, Canada paper artist who creates large-scale mandalas with paper strips that he cuts by hand. A Threat, shown above, measures 21 x 21 inches. His first solo exhibition is underway through August 3 at Lee Art Gallery in Orillia, Ontario. Here's a shot of another mandala by Ronald that shows the detail of central dimensional coils.
Andrea Banks of Anomaly Arts on Etsy experimented with photo editing for her cool circular mixed media piece that combines paper with metal. I admire the way she is always thinking outside the box. You'll find her on Facebook too, AnomalyArtsbyAndrea.
Here's another neat design with metallic accents... this one is by book artist and quiller Melissa Schnaible in Ohio who has a knack for creating pristine work. You just know this one gleams in person and the use of patterned papers adds interest.
Bangalore artist Ragini Gupta Chakravarty (@ginsdesk on Instagram) [edit: no longer available] is another versatile maker who draws intricate mandalas and creates quilled ones too. For this example made up of domed tight coils, she first marked the background paper with lightly penciled guidelines and used pinpricks to achieve perfect circles.
Miriam Fitzgerald Juskova in Ireland describes herself as a visual artist and paper artist with a love of geometry and mandalas. She notes that this all-white piece is a favorite design of hers although I have to say the colorful one below it is gorgeous too... plus offering prints to hang as wall art is such a smart way to extend one's work.
Hermina Fábiánné Domán of Etsy shop MinkArtDesign in Budapest has used a beautiful mix of linear and coiled shapes in this blue mandala design. Have a look at the remarkable paper lace art and dramatic on-edge vortex designs in her shop too.
Aurora of MandalaBorealis [currently not selling on Etsy] in Paris has the right idea in the prices she charges for her work... mandalas require such skill and endless hours to create. This lacy design includes carefully placed dots of white paint inspired by artistic Indian kolams. She also makes beautiful paper cut mandalas.
Zahra Ammar's Instagram feed and Etsy shop in Sacramento, California features a myriad of geometric projects... folded paper, cut paper, and quilled paper. She is another artist who utilizes a variety of techniques including watercolor and calligraphy, and explained that the Arabic lettering on this piece means 'God has willed', a phrase usually written at the foyer of a home.
Iwona (Vonnie) Wright of Moon Bloom Paperart in London has a knack for creating combination quilled and on-edge linear mandalas in vivid color combinations.
It's surprising the way the lovely designs above can suddenly seem minimalistic when shown next to this heavily encrusted mandala by Lydia McAllister [edit: Instagram profile has been deleted] in Atlantic City, New Jersey. She has filled the entire design with tiny coils, and also creates modular origami sculptures.
Last, but certainly not least, the work of Guy Bertrand Tamo in Louisana caught my eye on Instagram where he is @guy_art_quills [edit: profile has been deleted]. This piece, Green Bloom, gives the sense of a mandala; the framework was created with bamboo skewers. Remarkably, Guy has only been rolling paper since November 2018 when his first project was to repurpose the frame of a broken mirror.
"After two decades of doing pencil art, ink art, and playing musical
instruments, quilling was just an extension of my artistic
journey. As a software engineer, I
decided to incorporate my scientific rigor/training onto the mix and also wanted to bring a masculine touch and some African root to the art." He doesn't have a website, but can be reached at guyartandquills@gmail.com.
If you would like to show your quilled mandalas
and geometric designs too, I invite you to leave a link in a comment so we can all enjoy
seeing them.
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