GISELA MOSAIC ARTIST

 

Creativity itself is my source of personal joy, discovery, and amazement at the creative powers given to us all. I belief it is a hidden message from nature that we indeed have our part to play how the universe around us unfolds. It means the power to influence our lives and drawing inspiration from it on a daily basis.

 

My chosen media are mosaics, stained glass and gypsum plaster work, finding the combination of unexpected materials especially exciting. It is the shiny wet rock on a sandy beach that looks especially beautiful, a bright rainbow against dark clouds, so I play with the textures of rough substrates or sandy grout against smooth glass, of bright stained glass against plain white plaster, of delicate touches against a strong and stubborn theme, opposites attract nowhere more than in art, we recognize ourselves in it, and we recognize that it is the bits of grit in our psyche that helps turn our personalities into pearls. Yes, my art should have the element of surprise, not of smooth shallow beauty, but of depth, warmth, joy, born out of unyielding even unforgiving materials imbued with a tender touch. How exciting to create a sense of flow out of solid glass, or see the sunshine break through plain gypsum.

 

When creating commissions my art becomes a happy threesome of influences, the vision of the customer, the potential of materials used and my artistic interpretation carried out with perfectionistic craftmanship.

 

I live and work from my home studio, close to the sea and looking at the wonderful trees around our garden enjoying the intermittent cups of tea brought in by my husband and the purrs from my cat. It is a good life, and my work, I hope, expresses that peace I find there.

Gisela