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This is a preschool playground mosaic that was completed last fall in Anchorage AK. It consists of three separate mosaic...
03/06/2026

This is a preschool playground mosaic that was completed last fall in Anchorage AK. It consists of three separate mosaic murals installed throughout the playground on concrete benches. The mosaic is a blend of hand cut porcelain and traditional broken tile.

I had the chance to make this little porcupine that is installed on a stair landing in my clients home. It is fabricated...
03/06/2026

I had the chance to make this little porcupine that is installed on a stair landing in my clients home. It is fabricated out of five different colors of granite and travertine. Their neighbor has a photo in their home of this porcupine and they wanted me to recreate it using stone.

I am getting ready to install this porcupine mosaic. It was fabricated using five different colors of granite. I cut as ...
02/02/2026

I am getting ready to install this porcupine mosaic. It was fabricated using five different colors of granite. I cut as thin of strips that I could before the stone just turned to sand, varying from 1/16"-1/8". It was like a game of dominoes and operation combined while setting these slivers of tile. I will pre-grout it with a brown epoxy grout before installation as the field tile grout will be a different color.

These mosaics were made for a preschool playground in Anchorage Alaska. They sit on the face of three different concrete...
01/26/2026

These mosaics were made for a preschool playground in Anchorage Alaska. They sit on the face of three different concrete benches. This is a mixture of hand cut and traditional broken tile all fabricated and pre-mounted in my studio. The tile is DAL TILE's porcelain "Portfolio vivid" line. The concrete was prepped with Laticretes Hydroban crack isolation membrane. Mortar used was Laticrete 254 Platinum. Grouted with Laticrete Permacolor Select.

My clients brought me a whole bunch of scraps from all the tile work that they had done in their home and asked if I cou...
01/26/2026

My clients brought me a whole bunch of scraps from all the tile work that they had done in their home and asked if I could make them a compass rose. It was pre-mounted in my shop and shipped out for their tile contractor to install.

I just finished up this compass rose of a Boing 314 Clipper, also known as a flying boat. It was made in 1938 and used c...
01/26/2026

I just finished up this compass rose of a Boing 314 Clipper, also known as a flying boat. It was made in 1938 and used commercially by PAN AM up until WW2. There was a lot of hope that commercial air traffic would be from flying boats because they could land just about anywhere due to the lack of air strips. But after the war there were lots of unused airstrips that were then put into use as "airports". The age of the modern jet soon followed and the flying boats were then discontinued. My clients are pilots and their father flew a 314 for PAN AM back in the day.

I made this sign for my local tile supply shop. The sky is a glass tile that changes colors as you look at it from diffe...
04/17/2025

I made this sign for my local tile supply shop. The sky is a glass tile that changes colors as you look at it from different angles.

Just wrapped this one up today. I’m calling it Humpback Mountain. My clients requested two breaching humpback whales and...
12/12/2024

Just wrapped this one up today. I’m calling it Humpback Mountain. My clients requested two breaching humpback whales and a Kachemak bay mountain scene. They had two breaching humpbacks on their wedding cake and this is the view from their new living room. It is a steam shower. All hand cut porcelain tile.

I wrapped this one up a couple weeks ago and have forgotten to post it. Ten different varieties of Alaskan wildflowers w...
09/10/2024

I wrapped this one up a couple weeks ago and have forgotten to post it. Ten different varieties of Alaskan wildflowers with a mountain scene depicting Kachemak Bay. There’s 23 different colors of tile ranging from ceramic, porcelain, and quartz. All fabricated in shop and premounted on mesh for easy installation. There was alot of attention to detail in this one keeping the gridded lines throughout the mosaic.

01/08/2024

A short video showing the pulsing of the aurora and twinkling stars.

It was an honor and a privilege to create this Aurora Borealis mosaic for the Serenity Aquatic Physical Therapy building...
01/08/2024

It was an honor and a privilege to create this Aurora Borealis mosaic for the Serenity Aquatic Physical Therapy building here in Homer Alaska. Thank you for believing in my art and allowing me your step out of the box! It was fully constructed utilizing Laticrete products. Built out of 2” Hydroban board to create a dead air space to illuminate fiber optic lighting. It was constructed in four separate panels using porcelain, glass, marble, and granite tile with three different colors of grout.

We just completed this Kachemak Bay themed backsplash for a home in Soldotna. It is all hand cut travertine, marble, and...
06/05/2023

We just completed this Kachemak Bay themed backsplash for a home in Soldotna. It is all hand cut travertine, marble, and slate. Premounted on fiberglass mesh with LATICRETE International, Inc. ‘s Hydroban liquid membrane. Set with Laticrete White Trilite. Grouted with Laticrete Permacolor Select color Sand Beige with matching Latasil silicone. All sealed with Bulletproof stone sealer

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99603

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