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About
Anna D'Aste has been a clayartist for almost 40 years and a mosaics artist for twenty years.
Art has always been in Anna's life. As a child she loved to draw,color,paint and construct elaborate kingdoms for her animal collection.
As a teen Anna loved art class
best and in her junior year of high school learned how to sculpt, mold and throw clay.
After graduating high school she continued to take lessons in clay untill she went away to college. Where eventually Anna decided to major in art. After
receiving her AA degree from
Santa Fe Comm. College , Gainesville , Fl., Anna got the chance to travel to England to visit her sister.
After England she was able to travel
through France, Belgium, and Spain
soaking in all the the wonderful art
and architechture those countrys
have to offer.
Eventually settling in Belgium where
she married and stayed for ten years.
Anna continued to study and learn
about clay in Belgium and in England.
Once she learned to fire a kiln she
began to give clay lessons in a
community center in the town where
she lived in Belgium. in return she
could fire all she made herself for free.
It was in Belgium Anna tried her hand
at selling what she created in clay for
the first time.
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