Elizabeth writes: I’ve been collecting art of all sorts from friends, students and places I’ve traveled for many decades. The walls are covered, and you should see the boxes – HA!! The mosaic that I saw growing up, a shell portrait of Abraham Lincoln done by my great Aunt Sonia for my grandfather, who worked for Lincoln National Life insurance company is included, along with a couple made by my sister Gila and two pieces I purchased in Mosaic Salons at a couple of SAMA conferences. I must apologize that one mosaic piece that I received through online exchange many, many years ago, wasn’t signed, so don’t have the name of the artist. (If you’re out there, feel free to let me know & we can change that!) Let this be a lesson to all to sign your names, so when your collectors move into their senior brain years, you can still be properly credited!!!
Isaiah Zagar, Pink Face; Julie Beardsley, Bead Mosaic, Adonis Noguera, Inter Somnia; Ceramic sculpture, the frog is an early piece of mine, 1981
Left: Gila Rayberg, Pyramid – one of Gila’s first mosaics incorporating bits of our Baube’s plates; Top tight: Ceramic is mine; Native American sand painting; Colette Crutcher, Mermaid ceramic sculpture
Irina Charny, The Fall of Icarus; E Raybee, Explaining Life to Mom
Left: The Iris (no name SORRY), M. Battaglia, Glass mosaic Clock – both from online exchanges , E. Raybee, Teapot, The One Eared Man & all his Big Ideas
Jeannie Houston-Antes, Voice of Prophecy – Got it at SAMA Art Salon!
Top: Laurie Mika, Tammy Lynch-Forrest, Mosaic and otherwise-Embellished Shoe
Brooks Tower, Best of Show – When I moved it, the bird skull he’d put in was broken, so I added this one, same size but it still has feathers
The Family Room: Top: Gila Rayberg, Orange mosaic; Aunt Sonia’s Abraham Lincoln, shells from her beach in Florida; Background beyond the door frame are a few of my mosaics