Review By: Judy Newman,   Australasian Quilt Convention - September 20, 2006
Gloria has an eye for the beauty of the natural landscape and a gift for being able to translate this vision into textiles…One of our most popular tutors.

Review By: Gillian Schoenborn,   student - September 20, 2006
Gloria's eye for light, color and design have changed the way I think about quilting as an art form. She has taught me how to look at trees and the sky in a completely different way-an inspiration."

Review By: Anne Willcox,   The Bramble Patch - September 20, 2006
Gloria develops her student's creative potential by giving them confidence to explore new horizons and have fun on the way!

Review By: Terry Waldron,    - September 22, 2006
What a gift this book is to all of us who love landscape quilts! The first time I saw one of Gloria's landscapes, I knew I wanted to learn everything I could from this gifted artist... but I was intimidated. After all, her work is among the best the quilt world has to offer. Then I took her class and found her to be as good a teacher as she is an artist.

Review   Dharma Trading Company - March 1, 2007
"Every once in a while a really fabulous book comes along, and this is one of them. Geared to quilters and fabric painters, this book shows you how to achieve a pictorial masterpiece step by step. Gloria has an incredible eye for design and fills this how-to manual with lots of colorful photos and easy to follow instructions so you can implement your own creations.
Topics covered are inspiration, design, color theory, painting fabric, stitching techniques, construction, and finishing. She even includes a couple of pull out patterns for duplicating one of her designs. If you don't sew or paint you'll be inspired to start after seeing how beautiful these landscapes are! There is so much in here."


Review   New Zealand Quilter - April 1, 2007
"Gloria Loughman is well known to many New Zealand quilters -- having taught throughout the country in recent years. Her first book, Luminous Landscapes, was much anticipated and her many fans were not disappointed. Gloria details the process she teaches for creating landscape quilts -- starting with a photograph, painting the background, before layering the landscape and achieving realistic dimensional effects with judicious stitching. Basic colour theory underpins much of the success of these quilts and step-by-step instruction will have most quilters producing a quilt they are thrilled with."

Review   Sewing Savvy - July 1, 2007
"A PICTURE IS WORTH MANY STITCHES

Now you can learn how to translate your favorite landscapes into stitched art. Luminous Landscapes by Gloria Loughman is a colorful guide to creating quilted visions in paint and thread. This comprehensive manual will inspire and delight you while showing how you can create stunning pictorial effects, paint your own fabrics to complement your landscape designs and design and stitch unique landscape quilts from the photos you take. Detailed chapters on color, painting fabric, construction techniques and stitching provide you with the inspiration and the know-how."

Review   Quiltemagasinet - June 1, 2007
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Review   Les Nouvelles - June 1, 2007
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Review   Patchwork Gilde - February 1, 2007
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Review   Quiltnieuws - August 1, 2007
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Review   Australian Quilter's Companion - September 1, 2007
"This is a well-illustrated and very thorough guide in which Gloria walks you through the techniques she employs to create her stunning landscape quilts. A wonderful reference tool."

Review   Get Creative Australia - November 1, 2007
"One of our local shining stars, Australia's Gloria Loughman is known for her large vivid landscape quilts depicting the Australian bush. She's won major awards in Australia, Europe, Japan and the USA. In this book Gloria invites you to capture the glory of a sunrise or sunset, the stark outlne of a tree against the sky or the placid surface of the ocean. She has assembled a repertoire of techniques to give all your pictorial quilts breathtaking impact, from working with photographs to painting fabric, creating silhouettes, constructing backgrounds, and embellishing with stitching. An inspirational gift for any quilter or textile lover."

Review   Norsk Quilteblad - April 1, 2007
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Review By: Violette Severin,    - July 25, 2008
"Gloria Loughman wrote this fabulous book on creating landscape quilts. It is chock full of eye candy. There are gorgeous photos of her native Australia as well as of many of her award winning quilts. I especially loved the photos of the trees and fauna that are native to Australia. They are vastly different from what we see in the U.S. It makes me want to travel there and see them for myself...The book is just under 100 pges and is divided into several sections on color theory, photograph/design selection, painting fabrics, stitching techniques, construction techniques, and a few elements such as trees.
Anyone interested in advanced landscapes will benefit from the book. If your a fan of Gloria's as I am, you will love it too."

Review By: Lily Selvey-Willars,    - August 20, 2008
"I LOVE THIS BOOK, RIGHT FROM THE STUNNING FRONT PAGE. MY COPY IS DOG-EARED FROM USE AS I THUMB THROUGH MY COPY BECOMING MORE AND MORE INSPIRED WITH EACH DELECTABLE PAGE. IT OFFERS CLEAR, CONCISE INSTRUCTION,IS FILLED WITH FABULOUS IMAGES. THE PROJECTS ARE WELL ILLUSTRATED AND PROGRESSIVE, AND ARE SUITABLE FOR ALL SKILL LEVELS. IT IS A BOOK FULL OF EYE CANDY THAT WILL INSPIRE AND EDUCATE YOU INTO MAKING WONDERFUL ARTFUL CREATIONS OF YOUR OWN. I CAN'T RECOMMEND THIS BOOK HIGHLY ENOUGH. I HOPE THERE WILL BE A SEQUEL....!!"

Review   Serendipity and the art of Quilts - February 26, 2010
"Now I am familiar with the expression “You can’t see the woods for the trees”? and readily acknowledge the value of stepping back and looking at the big picture. (I’m a detail person but I’m also a pragmatist.) Nevertheless, there are also times that it is useful to closely study the trees in their form, shape, colour and texture. Indeed, Gloria Loughman dedicates an entire section in her wonderful book Luminous Landscapes to composing textile works with trees. In her tips for drawing trees, Gloria highlights how the outline and density of the canopy are of critical importance. She then goes on to explain several fusing, painting and machine embroidery techniques to capture trees in all their wonderful detail..."