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NOVICA, in association with National Geographic, offers thousands of limited edition and one-of-a-kind gifts, jewelry, and home decor treasures handmade by master artists and artisans throughout the world. Cidinha crafts this mesmerizing centerpiece design, resembling the magnificent, fearsome coat of a tiger in the wild. She hand-paints the striped motif with bright orange hues, captured between two panes of fused (or fusao, in Portuguese) glass. Artisan Info: "My work with glass is more recent than my work in ceramics. I used to make extremely minute impressionist paintings. I love painting on porcelain and glass more so than painting on canvas. Whereas an artist adds colors and tints on top of a canvas, here it is necessary to take away to create these works - it is a subtle difference. "I began to work with porcelain after getting married. Although I wasn't earning money through my porcelain work, I continued doing it because it gave me much joy. I became impassioned with glasswork at an exhibition of the artist Cida Abreu. Encouraged by a friend, I decided to learn the technique and since then I have experimented with the possibilities of glass - the combinations of form and color. As it is an artisanal and domestic process, each piece is always a surprise. The images I design come from nature; I like sinuous forms. "I am please to say my work has found an appreciative audience and now my daughter has joined me in this venture! I hope that through Novica my work can travel See also:
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