The main focus of this series is an exploration of the gentle and soothing quality of the mosaics, where pieces merge and fuse together. “Silence” is that point in time and space, where the sharp lines blur, and where the rough and physical becomes fluid and unbroken.
This series consists of four big and five small mosaics.
I love the combination of beautiful typography and mosaics together, especially in public floors and murals, so I decided to participate in the 7th edition of 36 Days of Type. A global Instagram open call to all artists, designers and animators to interpret the letters and numbers of the latin alphabet. The participants are challenged to design 26 letters and 10 digits and share them on Instagram for 36 consecutive days.
It took me much longer than one day to create each of these mosaics, not counting the preparation and the later work on the time lapse videos documenting the process. Even the coronavirus outbreak did not stop me, and honestly working on these letters was sometimes the only thing keeping me sane.
I decided to use this project as an opportunity to play around and experiment with different styles for each letter, instead of creating a unified font. I also really enjoyed interacting with the international community of creatives who took part in it.
You can watch all the individual time lapses on my Instagram or on YouTube.
27x27CM
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I’ve been very eager to make a bigger mosaic piece, big and impactful. This mosaic is 60cm by 70cm and tesserae are also quite big. Personally I prefer to work with natural stone over working with glass. There is something fascinating about opening a stone with a hammer. The hidden veins, colours and arrangement of the minerals sometimes all come as a surprise. Also these gradients!
This piece titled “Rusty” has been inspired by a rusting garage door in Spilimbergo. While most of the streets in Amsterdam are usually well taken care of, planned and maintained, Italy is much more raw and imperfect. Things aren’t always pretty, and yet there is so much history and charm, right there in the scruffy details of an ordinary garage door.
Mosaic to me is all about those details that make up a bigger picture. About being present and simply noticing things.
Horizons have been inspired by Pastels and are further exploration of building texture. While the tesserae are kept very small (1-2 mm) bigger areas of colour have been created to accentuate the horizontal lines in contrasting colours.
This little study is all about texture, texture, and more texture! Earthy, oxidized colour palette with some blue pops of colour for contrast, and sharp andamenti bisect (tesserae direction) that create balanced tension. It's been inspired by ceramic tiles I got from a friend and has lead to creating Horizons.
25,5x16,5 CM - SOLD
This mosaic piece I made together with the illustrator Tony Bartolucci. It was so much fun translating the very graphic drawing into a stone and glass mosaic and it's all about the sense of rhythm!
When I saw the fiery red hair of Luca Hollestelle I knew I had to interpret it into a mosaic. The amazing photographer Daniel Chorup kindly allowed me to use his image as a base for this project. Did you know that a slight alteration of an angle of one mosaic piece can change the whole expression of a face?
Further exploration of the Fast Forward theme and part of the series of three. All tesserae are of similar dimensions the only varying factor being the colour.
This piece explores the harmony and separation created using colour blend mixture.
Further exploration of the Fast Forward theme and part of the series of three. This mosaic is made entirely of white marble and it studies the shadows and three-dimensionality created by alternating heights of tesserae.
Balanced composition, graphic lines, simple colour pallet; this mosaic is my graduation piece and it explores a contrast between the rough and matt surface of the brick and gloss and smoothness of the glass.
Using self made pieces of ceramic cones cut in two different heights I wanted to achieve the fluid, winding texture where it is light and shadow that play the main role.
This is a group work project. The mosaic has been prepared and glued upside down in smaller sections onto the special paper, each section has been covered with glue and placed facing the mosaic down. After lots of cleaning and peeling of the paper the final result creates a perfectly flat yet vibrant surface.
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This large mosaic piece is a group collaboration that explores physical properties of mosaics (rigidity) as well as is a detailed study of colour theory.
What I really like about this piece is its duality: composed of 98 squares – each square being an individual mosaic with its rhythm, tensions and gradients; the overall composition also follows a particular gradient, rhythm and mood.
220x110 CM – NOT FOR SALE
This group collaboration piece is approximate 3m long by 1,5m wide and the individual ¨tesserae¨ (mosaic pieces) are big and chunky and yet together they blend into a seamless composition. A watchful eye can spot some pieces of metal, plastic bottle caps, sticks, fabric fragments, tree bark and many more found objects in between the glass pieces.
150x300 CM – NOT FOR SALE
Terra (plural: terre) in Italian means earth, but also ground, soil and dirt and colours that derive from it - the earth tones. Earth tones are more muted and flat and they immediately make us think about the brown of the soil or bark of a tree, reds and greens of autumn leaves.
Made in Italian glass this collaborative piece is a detailed study on colour blending and tonality.
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This work is my interpretation of the theme ¨The Opposites¨.
Opposites do not have to exist in extremes. Sometimes they can appear very similar. For example: two mirror images may appear identical, but what if we take a closer look and try to find and analyze the differences in a seemingly "perfect" reflection?
The purpose of this project is to illustrate these differences in a playful and funny way by emphasising the use of colour and introducing small differences in the shape of the tesserae (mosaic pieces).
Based on the original watercolour painting by Olechka Design.
24x54 CM – SOLD
This mosaic is an interpretation of a modern oil painting, where tesserae (mosaic pieces) freely follow the shape and colours of brush strokes.
Based on the original painting “Red Onion on Green” by Gretchen Hancock.
16x16 CM – SOLD
This work as well as the Coffee Grinder has been created for MVSIVA 2015, an exhibition organized by Itineraria in collaboration with the Scuola Mosaicisti del Friuli.
The inspiration for the 7th edition of this mosaic contest is the works of Roberto Foramitti, whose two main passions in life are science and art, and who has been successfully pursuing two parallel careers: as a hydraulic engineer and as a painter.
Often depicting explicit and almost methodically arranged compositions of shells and still nature; his paintings seems rigorous, coarse and repetitive but at the same time they remain very crisp, bold and graphic.
It is that almost scientific aspect of his compositions and their illustrative quality that have fascinated me the most.
This mosaic is handmade using natural marble.
It took part of the exhibition in the castle of Spilimbergo in Italy from 4th December 2015 until 31st January 2016.
This work, as well as the Exoskeleton has been created for MVSIVA 2015, an exhibition organized by Itineraria in collaboration with the Scuola Mosaicisti del Friuli.
The inspiration for the 7th edition of this mosaic contest is the works of Roberto Foramitti, whose two main passions in life are science and art, and who has been successfully pursuing two parallel careers: as a hydraulic engineer and as a painter.
Often depicting explicit and almost methodically arranged compositions of shells and still nature, his paintings seems rigorous, coarse and repetitive but at the same time they remain very crisp, bold and graphic.
It is that almost scientific aspect of his compositions and their illustrative quality that have fascinated me the most.
This mosaic is handmade using bricks and marble.
It took part of the exhibition in the castle of Spilimbergo in Italy from 4th December 2015 until 31st January 2016.
Inspired by historiated initials (an enlarged letter at the beginning of a paragraph or other section of manuscripts), this mosaic brings together the elements of Byzantine art such as use of strong, contrasting hues of coloured glass together with real gold tesserae (mosaic pieces) inclined at various angles. What makes it contemporary though, is the placement on a modern three-dimensional base.
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A copy of an ancient Roman mosaic from El Djem, Tunisia. The work was carried out using hand-cut marble, natural stone and river pebbles, paying special attention to matching the original colours and shapes.
The themes of hunting/wildlife and the use of bright colours were very particular characteristics of the African school of mosaics.
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Not only hand cut but created using a hand picked selection of Italian river pebbles, this mosaic is inspired by the concept of yin and yang. The rough and soft surfaces symbolize “the masculine” and “the feminine” – two opposite, yet complementary sides of human nature.
30x50 CM – SOLD
This table top was created using the reverse method, where each piece is first hand cut and glued onto a mesh “the good side down”. The main backing is prepared using cement mixed with marble chips and the mosaic on the mesh is flipped and applied.
After drying the finished mosaic is polished and waxed.
40x40 CM – SOLD
This mosaic in soft coral tones has been created in natural marble. After the range of colours is determined, each piece is then individually cut, shaped and glued using so called “reverse technique”, where pieces of marble are attached the “good side down” to temporary paper backing.
After applying the finished mosaic to the substrate the mosaic is flipped, paper removed and the ready mosaic cleaned. This technique is useful to achieve flat surfaces e.g. for table tops.
The featured panel is a part of a group collaboration.
Finished group collaboration installed on a table.
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Created using a direct method where pieces are glued directly onto the final substrate, this table top is made of black and white marble and crushed marble chips.
30x30 CM – SOLD
This table top was created using the reverse method. Each stone is first cut with a hammer and temporarily attached to the mesh. The mesh is then applied onto the main base consisting of coloured cement mixed with marble chips.
After drying, the finished mosaic is polished and waxed.
30x30 CM – SOLD
