Artist in the Spotlight
Sara Battaglia
Italy
biography
I’m Sara Battaglia, I’m Italian and I live in the province of Treviso, northern Italy. I studied architecture in Venice. I am a self-taught beadworker, since I remember I have an unconditional love for beads. I started with the beadloom stitch using a wooden board with 7 nails on both sides. Little by little, especially in recent years, I started to study other weaving techniques besides the beadloom: Peyote stitch, Brickstitch (or Comanche stitch) and Herringbone stitch,and to distinguish the various types of beads.
Artist's Perspective
My inspiration is geometry and precise lines. I love art, especially Neoplasticism (De Stijl), Abstractionism and Optical Art, as well as fashion, even if I haven’t had a chance to study it yet. For me a great reference is Pierre Cardin.
When I found out that geometry and beads could live together, it opened a whole new world for me. I started rehearsing, watching video tutorials, bought books and studied and tried again, until the geometric shapes started to be, to my eyes, perfect.
The jewelry that I propose are as geometric as possible. I like defined, linear and precise things and also effective, even if small.
I start from an idea, I draw it down in one of my (thousand) notebooks, and then, when it’s time to "convert" into something concrete, I start to choose the colors, the finish of the beads, the type of components to match, I make math calculations and diagrams to understand how much material is needed and I study the definitive design. And then off, I stitch the seed beads with needle and thread one after another.
I wish you could look at the sead beads with different eyes. And fall in love with them.
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