Isabel Rejtman was born in Lima on June 22, 1957. After studying architecture at the Universidad Ricardo Palma, painting and drawing at the Suárez Vertiz Workshop, and sculpture at the Museum of Art, she went on to take courses in ceramics and copper working....
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Isabel Rejtman was born in Lima on June 22, 1957. After studying architecture at the Universidad Ricardo Palma, painting and drawing at the Suárez Vertiz Workshop, and sculpture at the Museum of Art, she went on to take courses in ceramics and copper working.
Founder and director of the Art Novum painting and sculpture studio, she began to work in
huamanga stone, known as Peruvian alabaster. Rejtman went on to establish the Taller de Escultores Barranco that sponsors exhibits of contemporary huamanga stone sculptures.
"I'd describe my work as sensory, something I feel in the moment as I let my ideas simply flow," she says. "Life itself provides my motivation. I cannot contain my creativity – it is a rhythm that is my point of departure. I feel a tremendous connection to the blank canvas and it overflows by my hands.
"My greatest challenge has been to get ahead in life and in my field of endeavor so that nothing stops me from creating and moving forward. Every painting and sculpture, each work of art is a challenge, as I am always seeking something new.
"To my Novica friends, I'd ask that you love art as I do, from the most intense part of my heart. When you purchase something, let it be a true interchange with the artist and his or her work; let it touch the buyer's soul. And to those of you who let your glance travel across a work of mine, thank you!"
Rejtman has participated in many national exhibits as well as in Canada and Spain. She won second prize in sculpture in the Tercer Concurso Nacional de Plata del Perú in 1999.
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