Gwenn Zaberer is an artist and an art educator.She has been teaching art to children from ages 4-18 for 15 years. She believes that art and creativity are essential to a child’s education. As an art teacher, she receives a sense of accomplishment bringing art into children’s lives.
Not only does she teach and inspire children to create, she is an artist herself. As a printmaker, painter and papermaker, she creates collages of handmade paper and prints. She paints female figures within the collages, adding natural and found objects. She makes her own paper from Western and Japanese fibers. Her art encompasses the beauty of the paper itself.
The female figure is a theme through out her artwork celebrating its elegance through line, shape, and movement.
Her paintings represent female icons throughout history. Her style is decorative with gold leaf and bright colors. She is inspired by artists Gustav Klimt, Egon Scheile, and Matisse.