Sophie Bethune
I work primarily with glass. My work often also
contains a variety of other objects – marbles,
nails,
washers, screws, pearls, glass crystals,
shells, even small spoons. You’ll also often find
remnants
of circa 16th century pottery in my
mosaics. These ceramic shards are salvaged from
my parents’
back garden in England, where every
time they dig a flower bed, or plant vegetables
more long
buried broken crockery is uncovered.
Other items are found and reclaimed, from the
streets of DC, from junk stores and flea markets,
or
from around my house, and then given a new life in my art.
While I find the vertical format lends itself best to
my style of work, most of my pieces are
representative of landscapes of one kind or
another, using the potential of mosaic to evoke
city
and country, land and sea, nature and
industry.
I was born in Washington DC and have lived here
since 1999.
The intervening years were spent in
Buckinghamshire, England.