With her ingenious use of raw stones, minerals, and even fossils to create exceptional mosaics, Béatrice Serre has injected glamour and whimsy into an art form that dates back
thousands of years. "The famous tech Aque of marteline and block cutting has not changed for purists,, explains the artist, who chips away marbles and granites in a labor-intensive process that often lasts days to collect a plethora of smaller jagged, imperfect shapes that she reassembles into textural expanses. "The stones have hidden treasures" she asserts. "The most difficult phase is not the endurance of the manual cutting exercise, but rather knowing how to find the right alchemy of all these materials. Every element has a special place in the composition, "down to the smallest sparkle," Serre adds, "which can transform everything."
thousands of years. "The famous tech Aque of marteline and block cutting has not changed for purists,, explains the artist, who chips away marbles and granites in a labor-intensive process that often lasts days to collect a plethora of smaller jagged, imperfect shapes that she reassembles into textural expanses. "The stones have hidden treasures" she asserts. "The most difficult phase is not the endurance of the manual cutting exercise, but rather knowing how to find the right alchemy of all these materials. Every element has a special place in the composition, "down to the smallest sparkle," Serre adds, "which can transform everything."
