This 32" round wall piece was created for a couple who loved France. Her favorite flower is the iris, and he is a photographer, so I integrated an abstraction of one of his photos in the piece with the clear circles hanging from chains. They had recently remodeled their house, so fabric samples and photographs of the space were sent to me. Since their home is filled with natural light, I chose a mirror to be the substrate, so light of the glass sparkles from within.
This customized 12" x 26" wall piece was created to symbolize two sisters dancing. The client asked for a contemporary jellyfish design using blue glass. The jelly bodies were created by fusing iridescent clear glass in a kiln, then gluing the fused piece onto a piece of mirror to reflect light. 3-D waves were created with concrete, and glass beads were used as tendrils.
This 36" round table top was created for a client who loves her garden. While planning the piece in her back yard, butterflies flew around us, so I incorporated seven orange butterflies around the center red circle.
Where are the these fish friends heading? This piece was created on a piece of clear glass so light can pass through, creating a stained glass window effect.
I love to create images of real animals. Being with them for so many hours while making the artwork enables me to study their body shapes in a concentrated way. The iron table frame was found at a flea market, and I made this 32" round table top for it.
This client asked me to build a 7-foot front splash across an opening to her kitchen. She had some old family china to be worked into the design, and doves. I noticed her own hand-drawn mandalas on her refrigerator, so as a surprise, I incorporated some of them into the piece. I then made three smaller pieces with her remaining china.
These three little flower pieces were created from a client's china.
This 18" dragonfly was glassed over a clay form. Sometimes my artwork is very planned, and sometimes I create in the moment as I am working. This is such a piece. I cut small irridesent glass beads out of a sheet of glass for his spine and placed a custom fused piece on his thorax.
This 36" x 24" piece was created for a client who wanted me to design a bench for his renovated shower. He asked for a Trompe-loeil 3-D effect of a pond of koi. The four fish represent the members of his family.
This piece was commissioned as a 20-year anniversary gift for my client's husband (thus the 20 white fish). Her family live a vibrant and unique life, all over the world. I created their colorful family going their own way.
This 4" x 6" piece was commissioned as birthday present from an aunt to her niece. She wanted no frame, and for light to be able to pass through, so I made it to be set on a stand. The butterfly represents her niece, and the shell the aunt, with the blue dots of DNA connecting them. Her birthday is on the 23rd, and our bodies carry 23 pair of chromosomes.
This 5" x 12" abstract transitions red from the bottom, and lightens to pastels at the top. From the left, the colors transition from orange to pink. I used concrete to make waves, and used very small pieces of glass to go up and over them. I made a fused glass piece for the upper left to break through the top.
I have been creating a serious of insect mosaic pieces on 8" x 8" glass blocks. This was for a client who wanted a dragonfly in purple and green. Each commission adds personalized symbolism. For this client, her two sons and the sun, the moon and the stars.
This two-sided glass block commission features my client’s request for lady bugs and his wife’s favorite flower.
My whimsical client asked for a glass block with ladybugs and his favorite flower. The other side was a bit more literal.
This 28” x 18” piece was created as a window, so the stained glass of the mosaic is glued to a clear piece of glass. The clients are brilliant musicians - he, as drummer, and she a singer and keyboardist. The circles represent his cymbals and drum heads, and he likes the warm red and amber colors. The yellow daisies are her favorites from her childhood, and she likes blues and greens. There are hummingbirds flying all around their beautiful garden, so here they are in the piece. The hummingbirds are pulling the five lines of a musical staff out of a flower that makes her happy, which is the key to the flow of creating their beautiful music.
Inspired by a recent trip to Italy, these clients were inspired to ask me to design their own family crest. They gave me a list: The Stanford Redwood tree, a Florida alligator, dog paws, sea shells, mountains, their initials intertwined, two sea horses, the colors cobalt blue, purple and turquoise.
This customized 28” x 18” glass on glass mosaic was created as a window. My client loves to scuba dive (with whales) and to hike and paddle board. She’s also an adventurous traveler, so I incorporated Machu Pichu, and maps of Tahiti, Africa, New Zealand and Cuba in the piece.
This 40” x 24” glass mosaic honors the tiny, yet magnificent, Rainbow Grasshopper. I love enlarging nature’s creatures so we can see their brilliant details.
A friend gave me this bull skull. The first image came to mind was the butterfly, as I was transforming this creature into its new life as an art piece. I had no plan and made it up as I went along.
This glass mosaic abstract was inspired by a large purple and clear glass platter that I had accidentally dropped and shattered. I used the rolled clear rim pieces as the inspiration, creating fractured lines filled with purple mirror to evoke the movement and transition of the platter ,no longer being a platter, but now a work of art, with perhaps a phantom memory of its past.
18” x 24”
I made up this piece as I went along in 2021. I started with a 23 1/2” x 8 1/2” base and a rusted metal circle that I had acquired at a salvage yard. Then the butterfly developed inside the circle. I gave her a sense of place by giving her a jungle to land in. I used several 3 D fused glass elements made by other artists in the piece. Can you see the caterpillar?