Ravenna, Italy is the center for the most exqusite Byzantine mosaics.  My series of cloud mosaics reflects my experiences at Luciana Notturni's Ravenna Mosaic Art School and immersion in that beautiful city's wealth of mosaic art. Luciana says "Some people travel to see works of art, others to make them." What a delight to do both in Ravenna.

Tanit was the principle deity of 5th Century B.C. Carthage, in what is now Tunisia in North Africa. This Punic image represented the sky goddess, a mother and fertility symbol, a goddess of war and a deity who watched over and protected her worshipers.

Sands of Time is my response to the terrible sacking of the National Archaeological Museum in Baghdad, Iraq. The oldest examples of mosaics found to date, from 3500 B.C., were found at Warka in what is now Iraq.

In English there is only one word for love. The Greeks have four words to describe that universal feeling: Filia is the love of friendship.  Agape is the ultimate love, unconditional love, spiritual love.

Many painters from Picasso to El Equipo Cronica and other artists have riffed on some of Diego Velasquez's most famous images.  While living in Madrid, Spain in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s I saw the wonderful pop-art ceramic figures based on Las Meninas and other iconic Velasquez paintings made by two artists who called themselves El Equipo Cronica.