California Artist Sol Mesz Joins GoodHandArts.com

GoodHandArts.com an online art fair featuring fine art & contemporary crafts

(PRWEB) May 28, 2005 -- Sol Mesz joins GoodHandArts.com -- the online art fair website. GoodHandArts.com features fine art and contemporary crafts from artists all over the country. The goal of the website is to offer art collectors and art lovers with access to high-quality contemporary crafts and fine art while also providing an e-commerce outlet for artists who might otherwise only be seen at a local arts fair," says owner Judy Schaefer. We are very excited to have Sol join Good Hand Arts". Additionally, GoodHandArts.com supports environmentally friendly processes, recycling and programs that provide work and support to groups who need it. GHA contributes 1% of all profits to community art organizations to continue fueling the creative fires.

Mesz was trained by renowned Argentine glass and vitraux artist Carlos Herzberg in different glass working techniques, including pāte de verre, vitraux, slumped and fused glass, mold making and sand casting. An outstanding aspect of her work is that she makes her own colors for glass, using the same techniques and processes that were used five hundred years ago and that are still preserved in cathedrals. Today, these techniques are almost lost and Sol feels proud to be able to honor and preserve such old practices.

Mesz does not use any industrially colored glass, and therefore has greater freedom to experiment and use materials in innovative ways. One of them is her ability to recycle glass. Since glass does not lose its quality when reprocessed, she can turn transparent sheets of recycled glass into unique pieces of art which are also environmentally friendly.

Painting alternately in the front and the back of a piece of glass to achieve different luminous effects has been done for many centuries, and artists would formulate their stains according to the effect sought. With the advent of mass production they specialized in either making the pigments or designing the work; and many artists gradually lost contact with an important part of their craft. As a result, some of the ancient practices were lost. Among them, the art and science of making glass stains.

Mesz decorates her pieces using colors for glass that she makes herself, from naturally occurring substances, just like it was done centuries ago. As a result, she does not use any commercially available colored glass.

When making colors for glass I feel like going back in time, when art and technique were integral. It is inspiring to revive old methods and ancient practices, while at the same time applying them to contemporary designs. It is like paying tribute to the past while looking into the future", says Mesz. In April, Mesz was one of the featured artists at the California Street Gallerys Pure Woman Art Show" in Ventura, California. The show brought together an eclectic variety of artistic mediums with multi-cultural influences.

GoodHandArts.com currently features 85 artists in a wide variety of mediums and price ranges. Sol and all our artists offer handmade contemporary crafts that just arent offered anywhere else", says Judy Schaefer. We feel the value of lovingly created handmade items is incomparable to the mass-produced goods overwhelming us in modern society, and we want to share that joy with as many consumers as we can". For more information check out the website at www.GoodHandArts.com or call toll-free at 877-967-2200.

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