Russian born mosaicist Irina Charny who now live in California creating amazing mosaic paintings. Irina was inspired by the rich history of the medium, she strive to build a unique and personal art form on the base of classical mosaic.
This medium gives her a chance to explore color, shape, and texture, to experiment with different materials, and satisfy the passion to integrate unrelated small bits into a single work of art. In addition to traditional mosaic tesserae, she is incorporate unusual materials in her work like a mirror, pebbles, found objects, beads, buttons, wire, handmade ceramic pieces, and broken plates. Her mosaic represents harmony between Man and Nature, bright, vivid, filled with plot content.
decorative mosaic paintings by Irina Charny