Contemporary Handmade Tile Mosaic by Brazilian Artist Katharina Welper, 2015
Using very small pieces of tiles (Tesseras ceramic), Welper creates mosaics that shine in the lights. The subjects of her work are figurative and non-objective abstract.
The base of the artwork is in wood.
Katharina Welper is an artist based in Petrópolis, known as the imperial city, located in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. The wish to become an artist comes from childhood whenever she learned to paint with her mother Vera Monteiro, a plastic artist. She graduated in Art History in the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) and had an internship in Jerry Morran studio in New Orleans, USA.
She is a self-taught mosaic artist, a medium she is passionate about and has dedicated herself as well as painting.