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Saturday in the Studio – Sandra Bryant

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  • Date July 3, 2021
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In the Studio with Sandra Bryant

How did you start making art?

I was a CPA for 25 years before making art my full time career.  I always loved and created art, but at 18, didn’t have the maturity or confidence to choose it as my career.  I work with my husband also creating large public murals, and then we both make our own fine art pieces individually.

Why do you create and what need does it satisfy?

The world is such a miraculous place, filled with both natural and person made wonders, and art gives me a chance to explore those things.  You really have to look hard at something or someone to use that thing or person as a subject for a piece of art.  Even if you are making something more abstract, the relationship between the hues, shapes and lines means something.  It’s a way of communicating your feelings about your subject.  It’s always interesting to take an art class where everyone is painting the same subject, but what they feel about that subject is based on their individual history, and so, everyone creates a different piece.

As an artist, what is your most important tool?

My most important tool is my enthusiasm.  Also, I paint as well as mosaic, so will often paint first and mosaic after.

What is something that you can’t live without in your studio and why?

The moveable and adjustable tables.  If I’m working on something big, I can set up tables in any way that gives me the surface I need, but then take it all down for something smaller.  Also, my camera.  I work on a flat surface working with all the glass pieces and will sometimes see things from a photo that I don’t see looking from where I work.

What is your least favorite part of your process?

The huge mess I make.  I end up with a huge pile of glass chips (they start out in big sheets for each shade and I cut out smaller pieces from there, and then smaller pieces and so on…)  Also, the grouting.

What is your favorite part?

When the piece is framed.  All the adjusting and grout fixing are done, the bandaids have come off my fingers, it’s adhered to the base and finished.

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