Mosaic Abstract

Item Description

Size: 6”x6” / 15.2x15.2 cm

Tesserae: Albertini vitreous glass off-cuts, Orsoni blue gold, azurite, colored mirror, dichroic glass, stained glass, glass rods, glass and acrylic cabochons, Spanish vitreous glass

"This piece is a tribute to Yves Klein, the famous avant-garde French painter who invented  'International Klein Blue', his very recognizable signature ultramarine blue. It is an attempt to capture fragments of his artwork through the use of different textures in a monochromatic mosaic."

A French-American mosaic artist, I was born in 1974 in Southern California, where I spent my childhood before permanently moving to France at age 11.

I studied Plastic Arts in high school, Art History and Archaeology in college and Art-Therapy and Symbolism from August 2010 to November 2011. I live near Paris, France. I teach mosaic classes and occasional weekend workshops and I regularly attend advanced mosaic workshops to learn new techniques. My latest project is to develop and implement therapeutic mosaic workshops.

As far as I can remember, from trips to the desert of my native California to never-ending walks on the beaches in les Landes (South-West of France), with stops in Greece, Brittany or Hawaii, I have always picked up, collected, piled and stored things… the treasures of a child, a teenager and finally a woman… Anything and everything!... sand, shells, driftwood, seaglass, pebbles, rocks, scrap metal and abandoned objects… To me they've always had a life and a soul; I've always loved to give them a new existence, a different one…

It took until 2007 to come full-circle, as I discovered the medium that would enable me to turn these seemingly trivial and useless treasures into Art… my life-changing, emotional, carnal, creative and creating encounter with Mosaic Art! An ancient, mythical Art of respect and dialog with the matter, which transposed into our modern world, becomes an infinite burst of colors, glints, effects and nuances… Combining my revived treasures with noble materials such as glass, vitreous glass or gold, I let a color or a certain material guide me, letting my thoughts flow and my inner visions blossom… I wish to create an emotion in other people and thus to give birth to a "psychic vibration"… magic that crystallizes between my pieces and the viewer…

  "Color provokes a psychic vibration. And its superficial psychic effect is all in all, the path it uses to reach the soul." (Wassily Kandinsky - 1911)

I create abstract and decorative mosaics and I also work on commission. 

Some of my pieces can be seen at The Good Art Co gallery in Fredericksburg, Texas. (goodartcompany.com)

Gwendolyn Noble

Email: mahalia@numericable.fr

Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/pages/Gwendolyn-Noble-Mosaïste-dArt-Mosaic-Artist

France