ABOUT
After a twenty-nine-year career in southern California producing award-winning corporate interiors for the entertainment and financial services industries, and several years as President of the Pasadena Symphony and Pops Orchestras, Melinda Shea moved with her husband to the woods of rural Connecticut, where she can now become so engrossed in her jewelry and glass work that she sometimes forgets to eat. Her architectural and musical backgrounds come into play as she assembles eclectic groupings of images, playing with symbolism, color, texture, and scale. Melinda’s work is as much about the meditative process as it is about the final piece of art. "There are times when I place an image, and the piece suddenly speaks to me," she says. "The balance of positive and negative space becomes perfect in a brief moment, when it's almost as if the piece emits a spark." Although collage on glass can be an unforgiving medium, sometimes mistakes are revelations to be celebrated. As Beethoven wrote, “Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine “.