Artist Statement of Sharon Weinman
Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find.
--Terry Tempest Williams
My journey to mosaics is a love story. Eleven years ago, I took my ten-year old daughter to a neighborhood mosaic workshop. She enjoyed the workshop. I fell in love.
Since then, I have taken workshops and classes with mosaic artists and have studied on my own. I am deeply inspired by color, reflected light, and textures as well as the forms and shapes in the natural and everyday world. In developing my ideas, I often begin by looking at combinations of colors and textures. Using stained, art, and textured glass, my work primarily consists of glass-on-glass mosaics in the form of window and wall hangings.
I love cutting, shaping, and fitting pieces of glass into a coherent whole. Most often, I plan the concepts and templates for my work, yet enjoy the organic nature of mosaics. As I work, I often see new possibilities and make unexpected discoveries in my mistakes. I often cut extremely small pieces of glass for my compositions. While labor intensive, I find this gives me interesting ways to create patterns and experiment with color combinations and effects.
For me, the acts of breaking and reassembling glass have a deeper significance. This process reminds me that change, even when unsettling, brings new and infinite possibilities—some imagined and some yet to be revealed.