Artist: Lynn Monet Bevino | Location: Myrtle Beach, SC
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Artist: Lynn Monet Bevino | Location: Myrtle Beach, SC
Myrtle Beach, SC
I grew up quietly and mostly alone in Kentucky, a girl intimate with nature. I let it nurture me, and it set me on a solitary path of seeing, feeling, smelling, craving, and merging with its inspiration and wisdom. I acquired an intense love for photography in my adolescence, pursuing it through my college years. Photography birthed my artist's eye and brought my yearning for nature and my artistic drive together. However, both the art of photography and the thing that was my life underwent tremendous changes during the next couple of decades. I found myself in Australia, with young children, a distracted spouse, a chronic illness, and a burning need to create. While living there, I discovered several public mosaic art projects that grabbed my curiosity. The mosaics resembled the indigenous Aboriginal art that was so compelling to me. These catalysts inspired me to begin my journey into mosaic, a journey that has resulted in my mosaics being installed and shown all over the world, from Australia to Chile to Los Angeles to Germany. Mosaic lets me play with diverse textures, manipulate light, and gifts me with being a practitioner of an ancient medium that has a tremendously talented and innovative modern tribe. It is a perfect metaphor as I move into the next phase of my life. Broken, disparate elements, infused with the fire of nature, are reborn into a mosaic, a beautifully fractured and powerful whole.