We make art to adorn life.
Be it a mug we hold in our hands, decorative tile we hang on our walls, or jewelry we wear on our bodies, ceramic art adorns our everyday life.
At Rosselle Studios, artist Andrea Rosselle makes quirky and beautiful things. Utilizing multiple ceramic techniques, Andrea makes jewelry, tile, sculpture, and functional ware. Creating work in low-mid range white earthenware, Andrea makes handmade textural tools to create biomorphic surfaces on elegant forms.
Ceramics
Mugs, Ornaments, Earrings…
Adornment
Necklaces, Relief Sculpture, Platters…
Tile back splashes, trinket dishes, and flower vases are just a few of the functional art objects made, in Andrea’s studio, to adorn your living space.
Andrea also uses mixed media and ceramic elements to create unique and eclectic jewelry. Relying heavily on the visual contrast between textural elements and materials, Andrea’s handmade jewelry adds creative adornment to your everyday life.
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Andrea was raised with creative parents who made sure she had ample opportunity to experience the arts young. When Andrea was fifteen she brought a painting home, from her high school art class, that she wanted to work on over the weekend. On a wintery Saturday morning, she got up and started painting. The sun rose and set while she painted, and she never noticed. Andrea was so engrossed in her work that time disappeared. That experience was so striking to her, that she made the decision, at age fifteen, to be an artist.
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Andrea is inspired by both the beauty and destruction of nature. The seasonal changes in color, the gnarled roots of a weather worn tree, or the geometric patterns found in blooms around the world— the nature that surrounds us and the nature found in us are an endless source of inspiration.
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Early in her art career, Andrea relied heavily on sketching, visual studies, materials exploration, and documentation of the creative process.
In her late twenties, Andrea was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis bringing constant change and disruption to her life. Over time, Andrea’s changing reality resulted in a shift to her art making practice.
Intuitive engagement with the creative process, while experiencing a fluctuating lived experience, resulted in a strong focus on the present, finding a state of flow, and actively engaging Chance as an art material.
Responsive art making allows Andrea to actively engage the changes happening to her body, by an everchanging disease, within the art making process resulting in unique shifts in her art objects.