The Aura workshop is Marie Roux’s glass églomisé creations. Verre églomisé is a technique of gilding glass that dates from Antiquity. These works are entirely handcrafted. Marie Roux creates and enhances interior decorative objects as well as everyday objects. It combines the light and shine of gold leaf with the transparency of glass to create unique objects.
The glass églomisé technique allows decorations on all types of glass for glass doors, furniture, vases, wine glasses or carafes. Driven by passion, Marie Roux reinvents an ancestral and rare technique. The craftsmen who master it can be counted on the fingers of one hand and Marie Roux is one of them.. She seeks harmony between tradition and creativity.
It’s almost a challenge today to be able to express oneself, to be able to express things that are important related to the environment, etc. Then, the advantage of being able to have a job that allows us to create is that we have the possibility of being able to express ourselves a little as we feel, and that’s great.
Marie Roux, artisan of glass églomisé art and founder of the Aura workshop. “ Aura, I wanted it to be a name that was fairly representative of something that goes beyond that. Beyond what we can see, beyond what is palpable. I wanted there to be a slightly esoteric dimension to show that ultimately, magic is not only in what can be observed fairly quickly. »
Born in Besançon in eastern France, Marie Roux grew up in Alsace. His sensitivity led him to careers in heritage restoration and conservation. She therefore studied at an art school with a specialization in restoration and conservation of paintings. She trained at the same time with an art craftsman in gilding. Marie Roux acquired both aspects of the restoration: painting and gilding. Then, she specialized in glass églomisé.
This ancestral know-how consists of fixing a metallic leaf: gold, silver or copper, on the glass then engraving it, the decoration thus created can be further enhanced with paint or other materials.In 2011, Marie Roux founded her Aura workshop, a workshop specializing in the restoration of works of art and the creation of verre églomisé. An artistic craft technique with an almost infinite field of possibilities. “ You should know that it is an artistic craft technique dating from Antiquity which appeared in Christian art, notably for liturgical objects, it fell into disuse for quite a few centuries, then it reappeared in a period of revival. It was brought up to date in the 18th century by a Mr. Glomy who took the opportunity to give his name to the process. He worked for the King’s Court and mainly for everything related to management. The technique itself consists, since Antiquity in any case, of attaching gold leaf to the glass, engraving the gold leaf to define a pattern, whatever it may be, then enhancing it. to paint. »
“ Now, from a more modern point of view, we will be able to mix it with other gilding techniques, with mother-of-pearl, transparency games, with veneers of other colors of gold leaf, or even glass veneers. We have plenty of possibilities. I really like this technique, its richness which allows us to work on decoration, architecture, small objects or works of art. We have very few limits and that is what is very, very interesting. »
Marie Roux with her Aura workshop wishes to perpetuate this traditional process which has almost disappeared today, by offering artistic craft work that reinvents itself. “ I really like challenges. I specialized when I was a restorer on paintings from the 17th and 18th centuries. I really like working on ultra-realism or very specific, very meticulous things, by mixing techniques, by having something that ultimately takes a lot of time, but which allows me to have a result that is very fine. This is my trademark: the finesse of the gilding in all cases, we have it through the technique. My idea is to be able to bring the objects that I create to life, to have this effect with contrasts which will give the illusion that a bird can fly away, that a detail can appear and disappear. »
“ There are very few of us working on technique in France, unfortunately. Each product is made entirely by hand, from the application of the gold leaf to the finishing, naturally this makes it unique. The defects also make each product unique and that is what pleases me and what I like about these artistic craft techniques is that ultimately, we are not looking to have something completely smooth, completely linear. We will look to play with the flaws. This makes things particularly interesting. »
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