Gallery: Fine Art

Installations • Fine Art • Garden Art • Functional Mosaics • Signage • 3D Mosaics

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Fine Art

The beautiful materials: glass, marble, ceramic and porcelain, and the permanence they offer have made mosaics a contemporary art form that is found as decorative and functional works in residences, businesses and public art installations. This art form that started out as flooring, walkways and story telling murals on ceilings and walls has been around for centuries and is one of the most long-lived forms of art in existence and has become a major voice in fine art today.

Wildflowers
8" x 8" Unglazed porcelain, vitreous glass, Italian millefiori, Trend-Lux glass

Blue Flower (color variation of detail in ceiling of The Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, Ravenna Italy)
6”x 6” Marble

Child of Rajasthan
12”x 16” Vitreous glass, Trend-lux glass, Murano smalto

Harlequin
(Available in Bower Center for the Arts, Gallery Shoppe – Bedford VA)
19”x 37” Unglazed porcelain, vitreous glass

Psycho Revisited
8½” x 11” Italian smalti

Roman Border
9” x 6” Unglazed porcelain

Jewel of the Hancock (mosaic interpretation of art deco relief panel on The Hancock Bldg, Roanoke VA)
17” x 21” Unglazed porcelain, vitreous glass

Mosaic a la Mondrian
6” x 6” Italian smalto, marble

Taurus Rising
16” diameter Pebble mosaic: Carnelian, river pebbles, pea gravel

View from the Park
15” x 21” Unglazed porcelain

Sidney, the Cockatiel
12” tall: Vitreous glass, Sicis Iridium glass
Included in the Steve Irwin Tribute Mural, Australian Zoo, Brisbane, Australia.

Mackenzie
(Georgia residence)
11” x 14” Unglazed porcelain, vitreous glass

Shades of India
16” x 16” Crystal clear, metallic and glitter glass

French Quarter Arches
(Available in Bower Center for the Arts, Gallery Shoppe – Bedford VA)
5”x 8” Vitreous glass, unglazed porcelain

Ceiling Detail (color variation of detail in ceiling of The Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, Ravenna Italy)
16”x 16” Italian smalti, gold smalti

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