CHRISTINA BERTSOS

If there is one that being an artist represents to me, it is a sense of freedom. In my mind I can create and live anything I imagine. I h...

My earliest memory of making art was in a small corner I carved out as my "own" space in our family living room. Solitude and privacy wer...

Way way back when my friend and I were visiting the Art Institute of Chicago. The east entrance led visitors right into the antiquities e...

Subtractive sculpture is the oldest sculpture there is. It involves removing material to create a form or design. One of the biggest chal...

My mother Mary nurtured my love of art from as early as I can remember. She saved every sketch, drawing, painting or craft that I ever ma...

When working with a piece of stone I'm surrounded by an incredible amount of dust. The once solid, heavy, dense material become weightles...

The famed marble of the quarries of Carrara, Italy evoke a mystique and beauty unmatched by any other stone. Similar to the diamond, its ...

The new year is off and running! And I’m beginning to carve out the plans for the months to come as I usually do this time of year. This ...

I am approximately 80 hours into the sanding of my Atlantic Black marble sculpture at the level of the first grit. This particular marble...

I created this piece, "Her River Flows Freely" from a boulder of Persian red travertine that has so much rugged character, typical of tra...

I just adore this time of year! The days begin to cool, and being outside to sculpt under Florida's gorgeous blue skies is divine. With t...

Do you know that delicious feeling when you're in between just waking up but still caught up in a dream so captivating that you don't wan...

As I go for my walks every day either before sunrise or with the shorter days, after sunset, I find myself looking up most of the time. T...

I’m currently carving a gorgeous hunk of Atlantic Black Marble. Its starting weight was 361 lbs. and as you know how much I love to work ...

"The Graces" is the name of my 2019 Emerging Artist piece. The medium is Michelangelo Cave Carrara Statuario Marble and the total dimensi...

This is a common question I get when asked of my process so I thought it would be fun to share with you. Since I direct carve, I have com...

Last week at the Conversations with the 2019 Professional Artist Grantees I took away many pearls of wisdom from each of the esteemed art...

As I practice my art and the art of living, I find that I’m in a constant search for balance. The earth spins around in the middle of now...

When most people think of sculpting tools a hammer and chisel come to mind. But there are other tools that are almost as important, the r...

It's hard to believe that almost four months have past since the inception of my sculptural work for Creative Pinellas. It's been quite a...