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Creating art from aluminum flashing, like so many things, began as a happy accident, according to artist Mary Chabre.
For three summers the Newport Beach resident had attended advanced critique art classes at Anderson Ranch Art Center in Aspen, Colo. While there in 2015, she started using a Guerra Paint & Pigment product, a polyurethane-pigment infusion, to achieve a high gloss effect that she could not achieve with oils.
When she began having trouble working with it on canvas her instructor suggested she try the new paint medium on metal.
She headed to the local hardware store to pick up some metal and discovered the only thing they stocked was aluminum flashing.