Meeting three mosaic artists

To begin with, here's nanomarie30 who admits that, as far back as she can remember, she's always been attracted to manual work, but “I never thought I'd be able to make a living out of it!” she adds.

Patchwork and textile art became part of her life, and then, at the turn of an exhibition... it all clicked.  "It wasn't until I met mosaicist Patricia Zygomalas in Lille in 2017 that I had a revelation".

"From course to course, I also discovered a particular love for tiles, a love that gave rise to a series of Japanese ideograms...

In the end, patchwork and mosaic are very similar. It's the same assembly work. And, what's more, I love the mix of materials above all else".

So glass, metal, shells, fossils... join and unite with the enamels, smaltes and glass pastes more familiar to mosaicists. “For me, mosaic is a perpetual exploration”. Indeed, this is what we discover in her themed works, such as The Four Elements, or in her more sober mirrors...

A perpetual exploration, in which we are perfectly in tune, for nanomarie's universe is varied, colorful, dreamlike...

A world in itself, where we recognize the artist's touch, always on the lookout for a unique and surprising union of materials. Follow nanomarie30 on Instagram.

Here's Anne Deparis, who took up mosaics as a dilettante alongside her mother, together with other handicrafts such as embroidery, knitting...

The varied colors, the multitude of materials, including glass for its transparency, the light that emanates from it, whether cut or rough, blending its extreme delicacy with the other pieces...

And then there's the infinite chromatic palette. “The precision required to shape each piece for a mosaic allowed me to express myself fully,” she says.

While blue remains her color of choice, it's not uncommon for her to turn to one-color pieces, or almost one-color pieces. Green, red, gold and even white can also be found in her creative universe. Mirrors, dragons, tables, but also more personal works like these Tahitian ones, bring us right into Anne Deparis' colorful art.

“While travel has been the rhythm of my life,” she adds, "the landscapes, cultures and people I've met have given me the inspiration to create pieces that recall my unconditional attraction to the world".

Now it's your turn to immerse yourself in her world by discovering the artist on Instagram.

Finally, by_henbie is a newcomer to the field of mosaics. Like nanomarie30 and Anne Deparis, by_henbie enjoys working with her hands, so she initially turned to drawing, knitting and crochet...

But it was her visits to Greece and Turkey that led her to discover mosaics through frescoes, which then appear in all the beauty of this age-old art form. The combination of stone, glass and ceramics harmonizes around a historic, lively and meaningful graphic design. The colors and layout of the custom-cut pieces are, in the final analysis, the beginnings of her love for this beautiful decorative art.

Through the workshop given by mosaicist Clémence Sellincourt at the MJC Uzès, where she met nanomarie30 and Anne Deparis, by_henbie devoted herself to her new hobby... with passion.

"Mosaics? A fascinating field and a fantastic playground where creativity rhymes also, if not always, with color, drawing and... recycling", adds by_henbie. “The ever-changing motifs give life to a work of art that becomes apparent over time”...

Want to find out more? Here is the link to the artist's Instagram.