This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Creating batiks that look like paintings in realistic style, John Soulliere focused primarily on birds, wild animals, water, reflections and motion. To achieve detailing in the environment, he spread on the silk curls of string, paper-punched paper circles, and salt before applying his dyes.
Soulliere began working with batik when he was a high-school art teacher and a student asked him about batik. He had never heard of it, and finding out, he became fascinated.
He lived in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains of Georgia and was a regular exhibitor with the Society of Animal Artists and the Woodson Museums' "Birds in Art" show.
John Soulliere died on September 3, 2011.
Sources:
Marcia Preston, "Art on Silk", Wildlife Art magazine, April 2000
Nelson D. Eddy, who modeled for a figural batik by Soulliere
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