Read about the process in making this extraordinary piece representing the City of Camarillo.

Mexican glass smalti.

Mix of sea glass and tumbled glass with 24 karat gold Italian smalti.

11’ x 3.5’ Santa Barbara home

b. 1873 Naples, d. 1921, age 48.
In costume in his most renowned role as Rigoletto in Verdi’s opera at the NY Met., where he debuted in 1903.

36” diameter

50" x 36”

25" x 20", Mexican Smalti

20x30." Mexican iridescent smalti and sea glass.

20x30." Mexican iridescent smalti and sea glass.

4 x 4’, Sea glass and vitreous tile commissioned for the Santa Barbara Sea Glass and Ocean Arts Festival, 2016

The client chose a Rosy Rock Cod (left), a Rock Crab, pursued by a Sheephead fish, with a Kelp Bass above, and a Garabaldi fish on the right, swimming among kelp fronds. Installation in his patio.

Here is a mosaic project I completed in a lovely Tuscan villa in Montecito, CA. The materials are Trend/Mode vitreous glass, embedded in the client's marble Jacuzzi and shower.

Here is a mosaic project I completed in a lovely Tuscan villa in Montecito, CA. The materials are Trend/Mode vitreous glass, embedded in the client's marble Jacuzzi and shower.

Here is a mosaic project I completed in a lovely Tuscan villa in Montecito, CA. The materials are Trend/Mode vitreous glass, embedded in the client's marble Jacuzzi and shower.

Here is a mosaic project I completed in a lovely Tuscan villa in Montecito, CA. The materials are Trend/Mode vitreous glass, embedded in the client's marble Jacuzzi and shower.

Installed June, 2014. For details of this installation visit: gallery of images

Winner of Santa Barbara Beautiful Public Open Spaces Award 2014 as part of the Santa Barbara Harbor Sea Landing Walkway project with ACACIA Erosion Control , and Arcadia Studios, Erin O. Carroll, landscape architect.   Alf Ramirez installed the mosaic. 

3x4' Glazed ceramic tile: client home in Santa Barbara, CA. This client wanted a crowing rooster in a morning landscape with a Van Gogh sky and a lot of bling. And I surprised her with glow-in-the dark grout that creates a terrific effect when the lights are out.

Designed by Laurel True, truemosaics.com, fabrication assisted by the artist and other collaborators.

40x25” Ocean sea glass.

Created with a grant through a partnership with the City of Santa Barbara and the Santa Barbara County Arts Commission.

12 x 12" on paver. Sample for Reverse Mosaic Technique Workshop at Santa Barbara School of Mosaic Art.

Commissioned for Nimita's Cusine, Santa Barbara, CA.

The mosaic of the life-cycle of the Monarch butterfly is depicted as a teaching tool in a series of mosaic medallions embedded in the stucco wall surrounding the sand pit.

The mosaic of the life-cycle of the Monarch butterfly is depicted as a teaching tool in a series of mosaic medallions embedded in the stucco wall surrounding the sand pit.

The mosaic of the life-cycle of the Monarch butterfly is depicted as a teaching tool in a series of mosaic medallions embedded in the stucco wall surrounding the sand pit.

The mosaic of the life-cycle of the Monarch butterfly is depicted as a teaching tool in a series of mosaic medallions embedded in the stucco wall surrounding the sand pit.

The mosaic of the life-cycle of the Monarch butterfly is depicted as a teaching tool in a series of mosaic medallions embedded in the stucco wall surrounding the sand pit.

The mosaic of the life-cycle of the Monarch butterfly is depicted as a teaching tool in a series of mosaic medallions embedded in the stucco wall surrounding the sand pit.

The mosaic of the life-cycle of the Monarch butterfly is depicted as a teaching tool in a series of mosaic medallions embedded in the stucco wall surrounding the sand pit.

The mosaic of the life-cycle of the Monarch butterfly is depicted as a teaching tool in a series of mosaic medallions embedded in the stucco wall surrounding the sand pit.

The mosaic of the life-cycle of the Monarch butterfly is depicted as a teaching tool in a series of mosaic medallions embedded in the stucco wall surrounding the sand pit.

The mosaic of the life-cycle of the Monarch butterfly is depicted as a teaching tool in a series of mosaic medallions embedded in the stucco wall surrounding the sand pit.

The mosaic of the life-cycle of the Monarch butterfly is depicted as a teaching tool in a series of mosaic medallions embedded in the stucco wall surrounding the sand pit.