Unable to communicate
"You don't know how to communicate"you're too shy"have you lost your tongue?" "You don't speak never speak", "you have no character"and many more are expressions I heard (too many) as a child.
Raised hard, I was a well-behaved little girl, hypersensitive and solitary, gifted literature, philosophy, Greek, piano and art in general.
I felt so different different and out of step that Integrate into society seemed impossible.
Loneliness does not come from the absence of people around us, but from our inability to communicate the things that are important to us
Carl Gustav Jung
After a career in tourism and then in export, I always had big communication problems and it was sickening, it was eating me up inside.
So I changed my life. Or rather manual labor that imposed itself on me. I threw myself into creating jewelry. Creating with my hands cleared my head and plunged me into a state ofeuphoriaeven a trance I'd never experienced before.
An artistic personality
It was during this period that I realized I was an artist. I realized that my long-suppressed personality suppressed was an asset and my creativity a formidable driving force. At last I could communicate through my creations, putting my heart and soul into them. heartmy doubts, my questions, my joys and my hopes.
Here is a link to a very interesting article by Jerôme Garrido on artistic personality: How to recognize creative people - TBCRM
It has now been 20 years I have been creating happiness and with the same fervor.
It's me Flavy enchanted
Let me introduce myself: my name is Sylvie Attard aka Flavy (my artist pseudonym) and I'm the creator of Flavyart. I make high-end paintings and high-end decorative objects in precious metal wire and gemstones.
My specialty is working with precious and base precious or base metals. My working techniques are varied:
Crocheting, braiding, sewing of fine gold and silver threads
Beading, gold thread embroidery
Hammering, coppersmithing on thick wire and metal plates
Patina on metals
Processing of fine copper, brass and steel grids to achieve a fabric effect and feel
Setting of gemstones
Gold and silver leaf gilding
Embossing on copper plates
Mixed media acrylic paint
I'm delighted to have been able to write my 1st post.
The purpose of this blog is to share share my worldmy genesis of my work, and introduce you to gemmology and introduce you to my artistic favorites.
Thank you in advance for your time
