on using it. She says she was always fascinated by colored glass, such as that found in bottles and marbles, when she was a child. Her love of glass continues to this day, and the glass she uses is similar to glass used to make stained glass windows, with the only difference being her glass is solid instead of transparent. Although she enjoys using glass to make her artwork, it does cause her to get cuts and bleed while using it, but she says it allows her to truly put her blood, sweat and tears into her work. “My DNA is on all of my work,” Tillman says. Since beginning with mosaics, Tillman says she has done about 25 pieces. She started off making them for herself, her friends and members of her family, but she has also done some commissioned work for other people. When she saw the interest that her work generated, she decided to do something with it and thus created Bohemian Roots Mosaics. Tillman says her intention was to
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allow herself time for making pieces and to do a couple of art shows by the end of the year. However, she says she was able Humming ru the Flowered Vine
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faster than she expected when the Colquitt County Arts Center contacted her to display 15 pieces of art in an exhibit that concluded in late April. Tillman says she was surprised at how quickly she was able to do a gallery showing, but she says she had to get several of the pieces back that she had made for family and friends in order to have enough to do the exhibit. Some of the pieces that were on display were available for purchase, and Tillman says she is working on a way to make her work available to a larger audience. She says she is in the process of creating a website for Bohemian Roots Mosaics. Currently she has a Facebook page that displays a limited number of her pieces. Tillman says she would also like to build a studio at the old homestead she purchased from her grandparents five years ago — not only to display her collection but also to give her a place to create
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