SMALL MEDALLION FOR WALL, ORIGINAL MOSAIC WITH EMBEDDED MIRRORS WITH THE NAZARENE OF SAN PABLO, AND CHAIN Sculpture

My name is Carmen Benavente Diaz, I am Venezuelan, I was born on September 15, 1968. I grew up in Pedregal, Chacao, state miranda of Venezuela, then I moved during my adolescence to Guarenas, Miranda State. I know how to paint pictures, portraits, sculpting,i am a glazier (profession that is based in cut mirror, and glass by hand), I make ceramic pieces and I know a little bit of sewing and many other things. However my fort is in my well-known ceramic style intervened with mirrors and embedded glass, this also includes my stained glass and mosaics Since I was little I liked art thanks to my father who was a painter, sculptor, draftsman, shoemaker, and other work, and he instilled in me the love for art. I learned to draw seeing how my father did it. Although I knew how to draw , i was insecure, whenever I was assigned to make drawings at school I asked to my dad to do them for me, until one day my father told me: - You must learn to be independent, so you do your drawing. I started crying at the beginning but, thanks to that, I started to make a drawing, and I succeeded, the drawing was very good. From that moment, i do not stop drawing My mother also influenced my art. She painted pottery and from her I learned several techniques. My mother always taught me to work for my things, when I wanted something my mom painted a ceramic doll and told me to raffle it in the town, and so I did until I had the money to buy what I wanted. Over time, I painted the ceramic dolls myself and then sold or raffled them. In my adulthood I was more interested in ceramic painting than drawing. In addition I met several people who worked in stained glass and glass, they also helped to forge my style, I was taught to cut the glass and the mirror. In my adulthood I was more interested in ceramic painting than drawing. In addition I met several people who worked in stained glass and glass, they also helped to forge my style, I was taught to cut the glass and the mirror. At first I did it wrong, they laughed to see me try while they taught me, but I did not give up and I continued practicing, nowadays they congratulate me for how much i was improves and because I even manage to overcome them because I have better pulse, and i cutted forms in the glass and mirrors that few people (maybe nobody but me) can cut.