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April 2009 Featured Student Artist:
Anne Decker
Journey
No title, Tempered Glass, August 2005
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I have always been a creative person. I tried different ideas, such as decopatch or photograph, but having designed my first mosaic piece, I knew: This is exactly what I want to concentrate on.
I was totally addicted, and mosaic by mosaic — experimenting and playing with material, color and subject — I learned more and more about myself and the direction I wanted to go with my art work.
But still, I wanted to learn so much more, wanted to get to know different techniques and materials...In Germany, where I come from, I didn't really find the place for further studies I was looking for. When I learned about the Institute of Mosaic Art from the internet, I knew that I would spend my spare time in California after finishing German highschool and before university would start.
No title, Polymer Clay,
March 2009
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Classes taken at IMA
The New Tempered School of Glass with Ellen Blakeley (2005)
Millefiori Workshop with Laurel Skye (2005)
Mixed Media Mosaics: Urban Icons with Laurie Mika (2009)
Introduction to Smalti with Laurel True (2009)
IMA
Rightaway, I fell in love with the purple, pink and orange-painted Institute which is decorated with mosaics where ever you look at. It felt amazing, being with people who — like me — are interested in mosaics. Since taking part in Ellen Blakeley's Tempered Glass workshop and Laurel Skye's Millefiori workshop in 2005 my dream was to come back for more classes. The impressions I collected at the IMA further encouraged me in my idea of — some day — becoming a professional mosaic artist.
Chinese Lanterns , Smalti,
March 2009,
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This year, I finally was able to come back to the Bay Area. Having participated in Laurie Mika's Urban Icon — workshop and Laurel True's Introduction to Smalti Mosaics, I returned to Germany with my head full of new ideas which I immediately wanted to try out.
Growth
Over the last weeks I was working on a new mosaic piece which will be shown in the first exhibition of DOMO (The German Organisation of Mosaic Art, founded in 2008), taking place in Berlin (see www.domo-ev.de for exact dates). I am really (!!!) excited about my first chance of showing some of my art work in public.
Additionally, I'm preparing a one week mosaic school project, which I will run this summer. I really enjoy sharing my passion for mosaics with other people, especially children and teens.
Currently, I study social work at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, and thereafter I would like to get an additional degree in art therapy. My ultimate goal is to integrate mosaic art into my work as a social worker and art therapist.
Who is Herbert Marcuse?,
Painted Transparent Glass,
March 2009
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Mosaics
The whole process of designing a mosaic is totally meditative for me.
I love the idea of putting smaller pieces together to something new and complete.
Mosaics are fun in that they already get to you from a distant point of view — yet,
there is so much more to discover when your eyes come closer...
The possibility of including different techniques (such as painting, collage, photograph and lyric) is what I enjoy most when working on mosaics. There is a whole wealth of options of what you can do.
IMA
North Pole 8, Stained Glass, March 2009 |
Being Home, Stained Glass, July 2008 |
I am constantly looking for new ideas of how to extend the limits of mosaic art.
In the near future, I would like to work further on combining detailed planning and
playing with coincidence, bringing together hand cut glass tiles with small objects
found in the streets and overlooked by others.
Web Site
www.mosaicart.eu
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