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SanDee Adams Creative Mosaic Designs
SanDee Adams Creative Mosaic Designs
Welcome!
Take your time, there is a lot to explore--galleries, videos, and "how-I-do-its." Hope you enjoy my site and perhaps find something you will love. The image at left is a sitting bench (4' x 18") called "Garden of Nisene" a custom stained glass and ceramic mosaic for an estate, depicting a full day sunrise to evening...
Featured #1: Fish & Coral Mirror ($125)
This piece started out as a blank mirror from Goodwill--I love the idea of repurposing used items. Back home in my studio I got the idea to create a fish in water theme, but something was missing...until I found the white ceramic pieces that looked just like coral, added round glass "bubbles" and nautical rope--done!
My specialty is personalized art
Unique yet affordable gifts of art for friends--and yourself
One client came to me with an incredible fabric of Ganesha, the elephant god, purchased in Thailand. Ganesha is widely revered as the remover of obstacles, and a patron of arts and sciences and of intellect and wisdom, and the client told me of a powerful connection to the image and asked, "Can you create a frame that honors this for me?"
The frame I made was filled with the exquisite detail and bold colors in the image, using ceramic mosaics and glass beads, and bordered in deep red braided trim.
Each piece is custom, often commissioned, and when possible I use objects of great meaning to the client, found objects, hammered copper, reworked Goodwill frames, you name it. The Project Gallery below will provide a wide range of ideas on what you might like--like themed street numbers for your home-- but whatever it is, it will be special, and definitely one-of-a-kind.
About the work
My Specialties
The technical name for my work is Pique Assiette/Trencadís. Famous artists in this style include Antoni Gaudi and Josep Maria Jujol’s Parc Guell. I have expanded my technique to include stained glass, beadwork, hammered copper, stainless steel, antique jewelry, textile fabrics, and even organic materials such as moss, pine cones, shells, bamboo, rope, and more. My most popular commissions have been intricate animals--birds, turtles, fish, cats, dogs, and reptiles, in flat hanging or furniture based pieces, and especially the 3-D sculptures.
Why I Make Art
I love making things for people. It's my way to show them I love them! Over the years this desire has resulted in so many wonderful discoveries in so many different art forms.
The studio is my refuge, a place where I am surrounded by hand tools, drills, giant jars of glass and ceramics, boxes of jewelry and unusual "bits and bobs" I've carefully collected, full of color and texture - pieces first used for one thing and discarded, and now designed into something beautiful and new.
My Inspiration
For the pieces I make for shows, my process is to experiment with elements based on a theme, often inspired by nature, and the colorful world we live in. The pieces then suggest themselves, or maybe reveal themselves is a better way to put it. The result is a unique expression of practical art I hope you can enjoy and smile at every day...
HOORAY! San Benito Arts Council Open Studios Sept. 25 & 26!
FINALLY! Join me and 8 other outstanding local artists at my home, yard, and studio at 347 Carpenteria Rd in beautiful Aromas from 10am-4pm...So much to see: Stained glass mosaics, ceramic pottery, sculptures, fused glass, jewelry, landscape paintings, collage, encaustics, and much more!