Upcycled Abstract Sculptural Mosaics by Lady Butterfly I Artsy Shark

Artist Girl Butterfly presents a selection of 3-dimensional sculptures that integrate mosaic and fused glass. Check out her website to see more.

 

 

I am a self-taught visible artist dwelling in France. I grew up on a farm in the Irish countryside, sensation deeply missing, questioning what the function of daily life was. It was a difficult place and time for a youthful female with a eyesight.

 

 

I begun oil portray at the age of 11 soon after successful oils in an art competitiveness, and built my individual supports working with recycled components located on the farm. I painted scenes of a faraway world–a earth which brought me peace and hope.

 

 

My creativeness imploded below oppression, and I suited myself up and still left home to uncover my area and ability in the entire world of finance. Soon later on, next the death of my soulmate, I underwent a entire unravelling. This process spanned around two a long time, getting me back again to my core, and breaking down my moi more than enough to knowledge a profound reconnection with source. I at last allow go of my grip to the soulless existence I experienced as a economic controller in a British bank in Dublin and authorized myself to freefall into the not known, in look for of the real me.

 

 

I had a couple of ensuing mini-eruptions of my creativeness that introduced me back again to oil painting. But in 2012, immediately after relocating to the London suburbs for love, I heard an imperial cry from within just to create a monumental wall sculpture to transform our ecosystem. This pushed me to crack out absolutely, creatively.

 

 

There I stumbled on an industrial skip filled with the most lovely ceramic tiles. They ended up all damaged, lying despairingly among cigarette butts and plastic teacups. An existence where by all hope had nearly dried out. I experienced recognised that despair myself. And I fell in love with them. With their struggling. With their elegance. And with their possible.

 

 

They had been me. And we experienced a tale to inform to the entire world all around us. A story about hope. Perseverance. And love.

 

 

When I produce, I entirely abandon myself to the approach. Functioning in symbiosis with the materials, I enable. The type, colors, electricity, message, luminosity–they pour by means of.

 

 

I gaze down in excess of the creation from my mezzanine stage to come to feel it progressing. I’m looking for a perception of harmony, liberation, and exaltation. Then I know that I’m on the proper observe. And I keep on to make it possible for. The methods I use most lately are mosaic and glass fusing merged, letting for the juxtaposition of contrasting nevertheless harmonic components.

 

 

Born from crisis, my art pieces are catalysts for transformation and rebirth. Portals, they open doors, and remind us that we are below to evolve. To fulfill our opportunity and self-realise.

 

 

As Jean Christophe Paolini, ex-curator of the Museum of Modern Art in Paris wrote, referring to the deserted materials, “Are we not like these shards: shed fragments, loaded with our record trying to find to exist definitely? This is, it would seem, the preoccupation of (Lady Butterfly) who, in a singular and poetic tactic channels her electrical power to passionately sublimate the meagre, the vulnerable, to give us powerful, sensitive and stunning artworks.”

 

Artist Girl Butterfly invitations you to observe her on Fb and Instagram.

 

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