Mosaic - Anne Ziemienski
Anne Ziemienski spent many years living around the Mediterranean and in the Middle East where she absorbed the beautiful art of ancient mosaics. In particular, Anne loves the Greco-Roman style. Among her inspirations are the wooden funerary panel portraits that had been attached to mummies interred at the oasis at Fayum, near Cairo during the Imperial Roman era (1st century BC to the 1st century AD).
The haunting beauty of the Fayum portraits pulled Anne into her career as a professional mosaic creator. The portraits hold all the ingredients that artistically inspire her: beauty, ancient Roman and Egyptian culture, and mosaics. The faces were so full of life and story that Anne was moved to make mosaics from these images: a loop from ancient to modern through a technique which has its own deep roots in the work of artists and craftspeople of the deep past.
In making her modern mosaics, Anne works with marble and pebbles and with the beauty of their natural coloring and durability. In addition to her Fayum inspired modern mosaic portraits, Anne also designs and creates large pebble mosaic garden pathways and floors, often using smooth river rock, placed on its sides, to create tight geometric or undulating patterns. The connections of ancient and contemporary create rich imagery and reaction.
You will find more of Anne’s work through the following link:
You can reach Anne with this email address:
az@ziemienski.com
