New Project in Bellingham
Sidewalk inlay in Bellingham featuring Pacific NW species. (One of two inlays.) Local kids designed the 3 vertical mosaics during a 2-day event. The light pole bases are about 90 s.f. of mosaic,...
View ArticleDiversity Mural for Orlando
There is a second version of the Diversity Mural in progress for Orlando, FL. For this one, I have partnered with Cherie Bosela, owner of Luna Mosaic Arts, which is located in Orlando, not far from...
View ArticleJust completed: Memorial mosaic for Bernadette Liguori
My newest mosaic was a very difficult project for me in many ways. When my sister-in-law passed away suddenly, earlier this year, I was attending a mosaic conference with the theme of healing through...
View ArticleTile Mosaic Fireplace Surround
In November 2018, I created and installed this fireplace surround in a home with a subtle color palette. The client had a lot of off-cuts from their pale grey ceramic backsplash, and I had collected a...
View ArticleTiny House Village Project
I’ve been working with Arbutus Folk School in Olympia to create another participatory mosaic project that I hope to facilitate in May. Arbutus received a small grant to engage residents at a new...
View ArticleBest of Olympia 2019 “Visual Artist”
The other night, I received a message from a friend in India passing on a screen shot from someone in Olympia with a section of the Best of Olympia list in the Weekly Volcano special issue, and there...
View ArticleChiapas Trip 2019
I am often asked how I come up with my stylized designs. Honestly, there’s nothing original about this work! I have a passion for folk art and traditional crafts, and for a while now I’ve been...
View ArticleSAMA conference in Nashville (2019)
The 2019 Society of American Mosaic conference was held in Nashville this year at the end of April, and I taught two day-long versions of my Precision Cutting Stained Glass for Mosaic classes. This is...
View ArticleUpcoming workshops
June 1 and 2: Arbutus Folk School, Olympia, WA- Mosaic for the Garden workshop with a bird bath project. Registration Here. June 22-24: Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Nehalem, OR- Introduction to...
View ArticleMay 2019 – New Work: Alice Paul
Just completed: a 12″ x 14″ mosaic portrait of Alice Paul. She was imprisoned and force-fed as a suffragist activist, and she co-authored the Equal Rights Amendment, and re-wrote it in 1943. The 19th...
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