Archive | October, 2009

Shower Installation

This is a shower installation done with unalun tile in smooth finishes. The jade, celedon and cream glazes were used here to create a lush environment connoting jungle and sea forms. The result is a verdant and soft environment suitable for a small space.

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I created 4″x8″ cream colored tiles for the side walls of the shower and bath wall. These are undulating tiles that I placed in a somewhat random pattern to interweave the concept of the buldging tile with the flat tile, so as to tie together the totally undulating back wall. They are woven in with hand made tiles from Trikeenan Tileworks in Keene, NH.  Fellow ceramic artists and now friends, Kristen and Chris, have been working in tile for years with a highly successful business. They now create tile for Whole Foods. .


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Unalun tile with smooth finish for shower install



Making ceramic wall art murals

Every day my alarm on my phone goes off to signal me to write something about making ceramic tile wall art. I love wall art—how many times do I walk into someone’s home and see a blank wall and say–”that wall would benefit from some unalun tile to make a unique and original piece of wall art that is sculptural and one of a kind and truly amazing.” I would like to be playing music in Brussels as well. But we can’t do everything in this life all the time. What I can do, however, is to go home and make a new idea on a “painting” that is the wall canvas that provides a truly welcome relief to the square framed painting of age old. The ideas are endless, as are the walls.  Can I take ceramic tile to a new level?  There is a new level to be created every day in art. That is the POINT of being a maker–our work is never done for there is always some new combination of idea, technique and mastery that will lead to an original piece of art work.


My tiles are a result of years of vessel making, and a desire to provide something that we can use in interior design that is new, fascinating and warm—welcoming, delicious and inviting!

Today I finished a mural that is made up of 21 tiles that create a waterfall falling into rocks and vegetation below. The next piece will use abstract-shaped tiles to make a flowing mural for a foyer wall. The couple that commissioned the piece love music and art, and the mother and daughter love butterflies. My goal is to incorporate the qualities in those ingredients that are true to me, and give them a ceramic tile art mural that is unique to them.