I am encouraged and glad to receive the Second Place award for my mosaic of the Cinque Terre coastal town Monterosso al Mare. This piece is one of three accepted into this juried show at the Artists Corner & Gallery in West Acton, MA. The show includes a wide range of media focused on the theme of summer, well worth the trip to this very comfortable gallery. The show runs through August 19, 2018.
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I just finished this view of the most popular of the 5 Cinque Terre villages in the Liguria region of Italy. I visited the area several summers ago and was amazed at how the villages grew up on the cliffs of the area. This is Number 8 in my Italy series of mosaics. You may also find photography from this and other trips in the photography section of my website.
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Wishing you the best for the upcoming holiday season. I am grateful to be able to continue to create art and glad to have received the People’s Choice Award for my Boston Harbor mosaic at the New England Mosaic Society’s Second Annual Juried exhibit. This particular mosaic, one of my favorites, too was accepted to three juried shows in 2017 and is a mini-version of a larger piece that is on my home page. If you’re interested in mosaics, ...
Continue Reading →I am excited to participate in the New England Mosaic Society’s Member Exhibition to be held at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, Massachusetts running September 20 – October 8, 2017. The show was juried by two renowned mosaic artists, Carol Shelkin and Rachel Sager. Two of my mosaic cityscapes are among the 30 pieces selected for the show. Additionally, there will be a salon where members will offer selected works for sale at $300 or ...
Continue Reading →The Brookline Arts Center selected three of my cityscape mosaics for its upcoming New England juried exhibition, Contemporary Craft. The show was juried by Lindsay Miś, Director of CraftBoston who has also worked at art institutions such as Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Metalwerx, and The Visual Art Center of Richmond, VA.
The exhibit opens June 16, 2017 with an opening reception from 6 – 8pm and runs through July 21, 2017. The gallery is located at 86 Monmouth Street, ...
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I am excited to say that two of my mosaics will be showing in the annual juried Arts in Bloom show being held by the Hopkinton Center for the Arts. This year’s show was juried by Mim Brooks Fawcett, Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Attleboro Museum. One is a cityscape, entitled Venezia, from my Italy cityscape series.
The second piece I literally just finished the day before the show deadline. I call it First Ride. It is a ...
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I just framed the latest mosaic in my Italy series in a lovely Italian molding. Called Venezia, I used smalti and vitreous glass for the buildings, along with stained glass for the canal. Beads provide some of the detail. The piece measures 12.5 x12.5″ including the frame.
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I hope you’ll make the reception for the Hopkinton Center for the Arts Member Exhibition entitled A Fresh Take. I am fortunate to have one of my mosaics in the show, which runs through January 27, 2017. This piece, a mixed media mosaic uses vitreous glass, millefiore, stained glass, mirror, beads, and shell to depict a view of Boston Harbor along the Atlantic ...
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Visitors to the site have expressed interest in my Boston Harbor mosaic, shown on the opening page of this website. Though that piece was sold, I recently finished a smaller version of the same view of Boston (looking across the harbor from the airport toward the Boston Harbor Hotel and surrounding area). The smaller version is approximately 5″ high by 13″ wide and framed in an exquisite blue mottled and high gloss frame. Called Mini Boston Harbor, it is a mixed ...
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Just finished #4 in the Italy series. Entitled Resting Gondolas, Venice this is a mixed media mosaic using stained glass primarily for the sky, water, and gondolas. The church in the background, called San Giorgio is depicted largely with smalti and beads. The mosaic is 12″ x 16″ framed in a stained pine frame.
