Ilana Shafir "Hanging Gardens" 24.8 x 47.24 x 2 in. Hand-made ceramic pieces, ceramic fragments, pottery shards, natural and cut stones, pebbles and shells. Private collection of Leah Zahavi. Photo by Giora Shafir
In 2011, LATICRETE sponsored the Exhibition in Print, MAN’s international competition juried by celebrated art dealer Bernice Steinbaum, mosaic artist/teacher/author Emma Biggs and painter/art commentator Matthew Collings. From a field of hundreds of submissions, Ilana Shafir (Israel) was selected as one of the 8 artists to be showcased in the 2011 edition of the magazine. Click on the article below to see the full story on this gifted artist who says of her work:
“As the Israeli poet Yossi Gamzou once wrote, ‘There are people with hearts of stones and there are stones with human hearts.’ I always try to find the ‘human heart’ in each and every tessera I use in my mosaics,“
- Ms. Shafir’s website can be found here
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