Hi and welcome to Sacred Petals Art Studio, where every petal tells a story!

My name is Sofia Gagua and all works you see on this page are all made by me. I enjoy creating, searching, exploring and finding something that is hidden from our daily views or has never been seen before. It is my mission to bring beauty, harmony and joy into this world. I love using various media anything from watercolors, pastels, oils and my latest obsession is stained glass and I am getting even into glass blowing, glass fusing and flameworking. I am absolutely fascinated by melted glass and what possibilities it holds.

I love all nature! I enjoy spending hours on a beach looking at the ocean and picking shells, rocks, drifted wood, sea glass, and chasing seagulls. I love using shells, rocks that I find in my works. My grandfather was a geologist and he kept a box of different crystals under his table. I remember digging through it and looking at them and being absolutely fascinated by their beauty. That is why you will see a lot of crystals and semi-precious stones in my works. He and my grandmother were also a beekeepers and had a small house in village where I spent many summers helping them to harvest honey and take care of the garden. It is there where I fall in love with nature and all its beauty. And it is those roots that go deep in my childhood that inspire me to create.

I adore flowers and different plants! I began collecting and drying my own herbs and preserving flowers. I wanted to have a beautiful, organic looking display for them and that is how I came up with an idea of using recycled paper and shipping boxes to create a very sturdy board. The idea was to create everything from scratch so even a board that flowers, crystals or rocks being arranged would be created at the same time creating a unified look. I want those objects sort of emerge from, or grow from that display board.

I hope you will enjoy browsing through some of my works and maybe something will inspire you. Feel free to contact me with any questions.

Thank you and I hope you are enjoying your visit here!

~ Sofia

Sacred Petals Art Studio