Welcome!
My name is Patrizia Brasch and I started zia mosaics in 2004, working out of my basement studio in the Beach area of Toronto.
Art has always been part of my life. Several members of my family have a love and talent for various forms of art and I grew up in a house where everyone drew or painted. I
have been lucky to inherit their love and some of their talent. In my family is a ceramist, an architect, painters, a commercial designer, sculptors and several photographers,
including an astro-photographer.
My art education began when I was about 15 years old, with informal, private art classes with a wonderfully eccentric artist, Mary Anne Anderson. Over the years that I studied
with her, Miss Anderson introduced me to oils, acrylics, pastels, pen & ink, and, what I really loved and still occasionally work on, copper relief.
I graduated from Concordia University in Montreal, majoring in Child Studies, with a minor in Fine Arts. I studied painting, drawing, art education and art history.
Over the years, I have taken courses in many other arts & crafts – pottery (not very good at it), enamel-work, jewelry (I proudly wear the one silver ring I made), and photography,
which I still do. In 1998, I took courses in stained glass which I continue to work with, incorporating stained and/or textured glass in to my mosaic pieces.
In the Fall of 2004, I left my corporate life behind and decided it was time to do something with a broken plate I had that had belonged to my great grandmother. I took a mosaic
course at Mosaic Beach Studio & Gallery in the Beach. I loved it and I was hooked! I bought my own tools and materials and started working at home. By December 2004, my
home studio wready and I started creating my own original designs and producing mosaic pieces.
Since then I have enjoyed working at Mosaic Beach as a part-time instructor and I also had the pleasure of being "substitute-teacher" at the Royal Ontario Museum mosaic
course, filling in for instructor, Christina DeLago, while she was away.
I also had much success at the Signatures 2005 Christmas Show. It was my first major show and I loved every minute of it.
Finally, in the Fall of 2006, I took the plunge and moved Zia Mosaics out of my basement and into my studio space on St. Clair West where I've been working "happily ever after".
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