Gise Trauttmansdorff

I have been working in 3 dimensional media as long as I can remember. I was trained by architect parents from an early age to carefully observe and reproduce what we encountered on many travels in Europe. For me, the biggest fascination was always to look at people, especially at their faces.
Life long training and a love and interest for people led me to photography and drawing. However, my explorations led to me creating likenesses of the human face in three dimensions. The desire to capture their soul, personality, and a certain mood in their likeness never stops exciting and challenging me. Every face is a combination of the inside world behind it and its surroundings. In a portrait I strive to give a glimpse of that duality. Since words have always been a struggle for me I have finally found my medium, in the hope that it speaks for itself.

Gise Trauttmansdorff is an artist living and working out of her studio in Rural Ontario. Born in Graz, Austria, she studied at the ‘Hochschule fuer Angewandte Kunst’ in Vienna and subsequently received a degree in Architecture before coming to Canada.
She has worked in Clay for the last ten years exhibiting her Raku work and numerous portrait commissions.
She is interested in exploring the poetic relationship between inner and outer space through open and closed forms. This duality is extended to the surface detail by juxtaposing textures and colours. The resulting effect allows each piece to reveal the history of its process and is intended to evoke a sense of discovery.

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