MOSAIC  ART

by Sharon Hudson

for sale in the

MOSAICS,  RELIEFS  &  SCULPTURE exhibit

at

www.sharonhudson.com.

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My Mosaic Art

Mosaic art, broken china: Circus

My mosaic art reflects my longstanding interest in relief art and its close relative, mosaic, especially Hindu, Assyrian, Greek, and Mayan relief sculpture and Islamic mosaics.  For years I have created "paper mosaic" collages and worked with reflective media that change with the light, as well as with colorful, ornate wall reliefs. But recently I transitioned into ceramic and glass mosaics, having obtained more studio and storage space, as well as a stockpile of mosaic materials.

Mosaic art, broken china: Plate Rack

In my mosaics I focus on creating abstract or non-objective designs made from broken china and other re-used objects. I usually avoid realistic representational mosaics because I do not want to start with a "picture" of reality and then "execute" it in mosaic. Though a mosaic is more luscious and tactile than most other media, replicating reality would be tedious, time-consuming, expensive, and no different in concept from creating representational art in any other medium. Instead, I prefer to let the medium dictate the form, and to use broken china and other found objects rather than tessarae, tiles, or glass specifically made for rendering mosaic. Therefore, if the mosaic represents an object, the transformation of an object created for one purpose into part of another object adds interest, surprise, and sometimes humor to the final art work. The result must be evocative rather than realistic.

Mosaic art, garden.

Mosaic art, broken china:
China Garden

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Mosaic art, mixed media:
Tea and Strawberries

Creating mosaics from broken china is much more time-consuming and difficult that creating a mosaic from materials especially created for mosaic or tile work. This is because the pieces are irregular, different thicknesses, and not flat on the back, which makes fastening them to the substrate and dealing with the transitions/joints especially troublesome. However, I believe that the added visual and mental intrigue is worth it, and that the irregularity adds to the unpredictability and life to the final product. And with abstract designs, the idiosyncratic materials are better able to dictate the direction of the mosaic.


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Go to the  EXHIBIT  to buy mosaics

In addition to mosaics, my online  contemporary visual art gallery  includes bold, sensual, intriguing fine art in painting, drawing, pastel, collage, and mixed media.  See  realistic and expressive figure drawings,  abstract and decorative figure paintings,  playful figures,  portraits of men,  portraits of women,  still lifes,  abstract art,  decorative non-objective art,  reliefs and sculpture, and other  sensual contemporary art.

San Francisco Bay Area artist Sharon Hudson, Oakland, California.

2025

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