Bobby-Wells.com
Title
Bobb Wells Mixed Media - Home Page
Contact
- Wells, Bobby
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- Burnsville NC
- United States 28714
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- +1.8286754041
Description
About The Artist
Textiles were my first love. For thirty years I explored the medium. I was fascinated with the endless possibilities for pattern, texture, and complexity. So that when, ten years ago, I found a book on polymer clay, I was again impressed by the infinite possibilities of this new medium. I picked up the thread of fine pattern that had attracted me to textiles.
Milliefiore is a Venetian glassblowing term meaning a thousand flowers. I use this same technique, combining colorful rods of clay to achieve an intricate pattern. I make this into a cane, or log, which can be sliced and applied to flat sheets of clay. Cutting up these sheets of patterned clay, I make tiles and jewelry of great detail. The tiles go into the borders on my altarpieces. Gold and Bronze leaf give luster and contrast to the patterns.
I choose to depict the natural beauty of the Southern Appalachians. I live in the pastoral valley of the South Toe River. Looking out at the view from my studio, I bless the day I moved to these mountains. My love of place has inspired me for thirty years..
