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Written by nadishana   
Friday, 05 September 2008 03:03
The project KUAAMU - Kuzhebar Synergies is based on the collaborative work of Eliza Gapenne (Eliz'art, France - http://www.elizart.fr) and Julia Surba (Kuzhebar Design( Siberia - http://pyrography-design.com).


Eliz'art discovered polymer clay in 2006 and since then, her passion for this material and its unlimited creative possibilities grows every day.
She has a special way to use it, mixing it to natural materials and seeds, but also pigments, species... so that she manages to obtain a natural effect to her creations and give them an ethnic style.
Since she met polymer clay, her life took a new direction. She quit her job to dedicate to her passion and creation. Every pieces she makes is completely hand-made and she puts all her energy and sensibility in each of them. Her love of the Nature, her first source of inspiration, influence her work and can be seen in all her creations.
"Through my jewels, I try to reconcile each other with the Nature and make people feel "light" and happy. They are like my attempt to rebuild the link that unifies us Nature, all the more that our speed way of life in modern societies is destroying it more and more day after day...
It's like something we couldn't live without but that we don't realize because we don't have time to even think about it!
Using seeds, old branches, leaves, sand... in other words, every little treasures we can find if we see things with a creative look, we can make very nice things and give to those elements a "new" life... We just have to free our imagination, put aside standard rules, take time to live fully, be sensitive to our environment and also curious of every thing to make experimentations and then discover new creative fields..."



Julia Surba is a siberian artist, whose favourite expression art became pyrography*. Inspired by art of ancient world cultures, Julia has developed her own "background" pyrography technique by which carving in combination with burned pictures build expressive relief patterns in Tribal Art style.

Last time Julia scrutinizes the almost forgotten small culture of Ancient Kuzhebar (Siberia), that is why her objects often represent the unique world-picture of aboriginal inhabitants of this culture. She tries to keep its knowledge, live and develop it.

Julia Surba is a member of the International Association of Pyrographic Artists (IAPA).
In 2005 she established the "Kuzhebar-Design" studio, which is specialized in pyrography-design, design for music instruments, developing of logos and CD-covers, fashion and amulets.

*Pyrography or art of fire (from Greek pyros = fire) or Wood Burning Art is the art of burning an image onto a surface: wood or leather. It was popular in many ancient cultures of Australia, Afrika, Amerika and in Ancient Kuzhebar .

About Julia Surba:
"i love you artwork! i think it was the innovation of alot of todays modern art with the spirit and earthy feeling of old. thank you for your beautiful art it brings out true emotions... good luck in the future
peace and thanks,
Thomas Dirk"

“What I thought when I saw your work was that it was original. I can see an influence of Mayan, African, and Tribal......but, really it is your own twist. I think you started a new category of your own and one day students like me will be studying your style”.
Archeologist April, USA