Self-taught and fiercely independent, Line Vautrin sought to express the primitive and the mystical through her work in bronze, resin and mirrored glass. Though her childhood exposure to her family’s metal foundry certainly propelled her interest in the craft, her skills were the result of endless experimentations rather than formal training. Vautrin developed Talosel, a proprietary resin, in the post-war period following years of work primarily in bronze. The ensuing imaginative and poetic mirrors have enchanted collectors from the early 1950s until the present. There is an alchemical aspect to the process of creating Talosel, a sense of magic reflected in the fantastical and sometimes mythological nature of Vautrin’s favoured decorative themes, and to an extent in the experience of viewing oneself in a convex mirror.