ISABELLE SCHELTJENS

Isabelle Scheltjens (born in 1981 is a Belgian artist She studied at SISA, Antwerp she lives and works in Grobbendonk Her husband Dirk Neefs’s glass designs inspired her to work with glass After portraying her daughter, as from 2014 she refined her unique glass fusing technique two or three layers of hand cut pieces of glass in different colours, textures and sizes, are melted together at 800 C These colourful glass mosaics are like the dots of paint used by the pointillists an abstract image up close, yet forming an expressive portrait from a distance, through the human eye She is a master in colour theory Only after meticulously watching the positioned cubes from above, she glues them on acrylic glass Creating a portrait out of nearly twenty thousand pieces of glass is a monumental task, which requires great craftmanship Isabelle makes unique, intriguing and expressive portraits, mainly of women She is able to create a phenomenal effect glass mosaics optically fuse together and transform into a stunning portrait .