Me

I always loved to make crafts, especially during my childhood and teen years (I traveled my country Chile, selling crafts on the road before I was 18) but when I started my Engineering studies, crafts were changed for mathematics. It was during the last years of college when the necessity for a creative outlet became present again. I took a Theory of Color class, without knowing really what it was, but I wanted to have colors around. And I loved it, but I was really busy with other things… still, I started creating and making objects in different medias until I discovered mosaics and the necessity of spending my time making them was bigger and bigger every day.

Life brought me a beautiful and supportive husband who happened to live in USA, so I moved with him and since then have been dedicated full time to the development of my crafting skills, first only with mosaics and then with yarns. It’s been a wonderful experience, and this site is the result of it. I only hope my work evolves and gets better with time.

My Mosaics

Mainly functional art, it is characterized by organic, abstract designs -as images that give impressions and feelings- more than the recreation of people or landscapes, and an eye-catching use of color. I also like to make simple geometrical coasters because they allow me color experimentation practice, which is a line of work by itself. My works are small, because I have a lot of patience, but I also like variety. I guess I have to work on that.

In the process of making my designs, I look not only for harmony for myself but also for the final recipients of the work. The final objective is to always give some beauty to other’s people life, something you will enjoy looking at, where you can discover something new every time, just like it is when I’m making them. In pursuing this objective, I work on every piece until satisfied with it, no matter how long it takes.

Although I use ceramics, glass, mirror and glass pebbles, most of my mosaics are made from vitreous glass, a material that comes in little squares, normally 3/4″ wide, that I carefully cut into shape to make them fit one next to the other.

I pay a lot of attention to the fitting of the pieces, that’s why it takes me so long to make each work but I think is worth it because the results are very harmonious. I’m very demanding of other people’s work, and therefore couldn’t expect less from myself. I would never give or sell something I wouldn’t love to have myself.