About the artist

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Bijou D’Arpa is a native of Palermo, Italy, with an MA in Italian Language and Culture from Middlebury College. During her 30-year career as a university Italian instructor, she learned that the reality behind college walls is very different from what she had dreamed as a graduate student. Therefore, she recently chose to explore her artistic point of view. 

Bijou first fell in love with embedding dried flowers, grasses, and other natural artifacts in resin. 

But it wasn’t until she combined the brilliance and vibrancy of alcohol inks with resin that she fell in love with creating one-of-a-kind, original collages finished with resin to give the pieces a deep, glass-like finish.