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Myriam Booghs - Straw marquetry

Straw marquetry is the art of forming a decorative panel using flattened slithers of natural cured straw. The stem is split, flattened, softened and scraped or ironed into a flat ribbon. It is then inlaid edge to edge on paper or wood until the surface is covered. The process is entirely handmade. From the preparation of the straw into ribbons, to the dyeing process, to the choosing and inlaying of each single piece of straw onto the surface, the art of straw marquetry requires patience and a well-developed sense of color and tone.

 BIOGRAPHY

Myriam Booghs . She was a cartoonist for the written press. She experienced a globetrotting life with her husband due to his professional obligations in Europe and Turkey. She also resided with her family in Tunisia where she lived the historical events of the Arab Spring from 2011 on. Since 2013, she resides in Strasbourg, city she felt in love with and where they decided to live.

She gave lessons in decorative arts in international environments without giving up her first "love", straw marquetry :  an art she is praticing since her childhood  and this in combination with different mixed techniques she acquired during her stays in the different countries where she lived. She learned these skills from artists of different nationalities and cultures.

 HER ART

Myriam Booghs loves to give new live to everything she touches. Her marquetries with inlays, coloured, pigmented, on small furniture, boxes, sculptures, books and simple pieces of wood.... This confers her art pieces an indelible character, peculiar to the artist and makes each of these objects unique.