Mosaic - art

Item Description

Item: Mosaic wall panel

Size: 9-3/4 x 9-3/4 inch,  25 x 25 cm

Tesserae: Ceramic tile, Mexican smalti, colored mirror, Venetian mirror, glass, obsidian, jade

'Rayon Vert' means 'Green Flash' in French. A green flash is a rare atmospheric phenomenon that can be seen at sunrise or sunset when the sky is clear and the atmospheric pressure is high. During a few seconds, a green dot or a green flash/ray appears at the top of the Sun as it touches the horizon. You can spend days on the lookout for it and never see it and then one day, the ever-elusive green flash will grant you its magic when you least expect it!

Le Rayon Vert is also a novel written by Jules Verne in 1882. It tells the story of a young woman who to avoid an arranged marriage with a boring scientist, tells her uncles that she will wed once she's seen a green ray. According to the Scottish legends she adores, it is said to help those who have observed it see clearly into their own heart and into others'. After many unsuccessful attempts throughout misty Scotland, with sails, clouds and flocks of birds hiding the Sun, the phenomenon finally occurs... but the two main characters are too busy discovering love in each other's eyes to see it!

Rayon Vert is a mosaic musing on things that happen when you least expect them, on happenstance and serendipity.

“A French-American mosaic artist, I was born in Southern California, where I spent my childhood before permanently moving to France as a teenager.

I studied Plastic Arts in high school, Art History and Archaeology in college and Art-Therapy and Symbolism for 18 months in 2010/2011. I live near Paris, France. I taught mosaic classes for 3 years and now teach occasional weekend mosaic workshops. 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 particular 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)

Gwendolyn Noble ~ Contemporary abstract mosaic art

Commissions welcome

Email: glasstess@gmail.com

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

France

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