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Her Time to Shine
Written By: Donna Rhodes | Issue: 2018/03 - March
When life hurls lemons at Marsha Lessard, she doesn’t make lemonade…she turns those sour episodes into a slice of fried gold!
After 21 years at a corporate job, she was suddenly let go. Dazed, she trusted her faith and intuition to get her through. Now she’s busier than ever reconnecting with her first love, art.
She comes by creativity naturally, saying, “Dad was a stained glass artisan …old school, with lead and copper. Under his influence I did stained glass mosaic art in high school.”
She had planned to study art, but focused on family and her first 20-year career as a crown and bridge dental technician,
Art, incubating in her heart and soul for years, surfaced after her transition from corporate employee to self-employment. Her family raised, she was free to paint. She began with funky folk art chickens. People loved them. She couldn’t make them fast enough.
But stained glass kept calling her. She resurrected her glass mosaic work. The next thing she knew, she was swamped with sales
and commissions.
“It’s been thrilling after all these years to be doing this again,” she says. “I’ve always been creative and loved it. I have come full circle. Back to the artistic love of my life.”
She’s been collecting old farmhouse windows, repairing them, and layering images created from puzzle-like colored pieces to the window-glass surface. She grouts this mosaic design. Then seals the grout. Each step requires curing-time followed by a thorough cleaning.
She says, “When the finished product emerges a week later, I give it a final cleaning, and the gleaming light, shining through the glass, dazzles me. I sing a chorus of ‘Here Comes the Sun!’”
Her customers love her work. She does commissioned landscapes, animals, religious symbols, whatever the client desires. It’s like having a tiny bit of sanctuary light in your home.
For your own slice of fried gold visit her on Facebook: Marsha Rogers Lessard or My father’s studio under our house. E-mail her at [email protected] or call her
at (828) 342-6866.
