With a fine eye for color, style and proportion SAF Designs creates custom mosaic art, warm glass, furniture, lighting and accessories. As well as offers creative consulting and design for custom; artwork installations and interior design indoor/outdoor architectural elements, graphic design and more. Sarah combines all skills when developing and creating intricate unique artwork with a variety of glass, stone, ceramic, metal, wood, gemstones and more. The passion to modernize these ancient art mediums is illustrated by her distinct ability to capture and compose the realms of today in any style or scope and with superb quality. Sarah produces works that are suitable for any size project, indoor/outdoor, gallery, architectural, corporate office, restaurant, hotel, community, or home.

BIO/RESUME:
I am inspired by the science of color, texture, interaction and divine design. I have an acute fascination with the fragments of the world around me and a heartfelt devotion to my art. I find inspiration in everything I see and experience. Self taught with experience and knowledge of the finest modern and traditional production techniques within mosaic art, warm glass and concept and design of fine art, furniture, lighting, jewelry, fashion and many other gadgets.
I collect and compose with fragments ranging from recycled materials to precious metals, the finest Italian tesserae, hand made glass and other illusions. With my work an intrinsic interaction occurs that requires one to look closely noticing the identity of each detail, like pixels in a painting. One must then, step back to immerse the senses in the intricate entity of pigment and light trapped within the artistic glass mosaic design.

Tenure in Emergence:
Born: Fairfax, Va. Oct. 16, 1978
B.S. in Design/ Merchandising Radford University, May 2000

*other areas of concentration/study: psychology/sociology, philosophy, marketing, creative consulting, graphic design, variety of sciences,
mosaic art, warm glass, metalwork, jewelry/fashion and interior design, furniture/lighting/accessory design, ceramics, painting/drawing,

Post-grad-
Belk Inc. Department store. 2000 - 2001 sales manager
Wet Seal Women's boutique. 2001-2002 store manager
Sarah A Fontinel Designs, llc started (c)2002

Memberships /Societies
Society of American Mosaic Artists

GALLERIES & EXHIBITIONS
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