American Crow, Mosaic




American Crow, Mosaic Tabletop




Ostian Sea

Each of the lapidary mosaics featured on the page are natural colours, untreated and polished, of marble and granite from the Americas, Africa, Asia, Australia, and Europe provide the palette from which this picture was created, no dyes are used.

Artist Richard Moss creates his 'backyard birds' portraits in lapidary mosaic, with several hundreds of bits, called tesserae, individually selected from slabs of stone and each shaped by hand. This black granite and marble crow (top and center, left) glints with blue and purple highlights just as the feathers of an American Crow does. The circular frame is formed in heavy gauge copper.

Benelux Homage E of C artists use travels through the Netherlands, and the Pays Bas as inspiration to create this trumpeting swan, the national bird of the Netherlands (below). Centered within a wreath of flowers in the stlye of the large-piece mosaics found in museums of the Benelux countries. Natural stones are augmented with minerals and precious stones, such as amethyst and rhodechrosite, to provide the palette from which this picture was created, no dyes are used. The mahogany frame is finished in 24 carat gold leaf. Dimensions (including frame): fifty two inches wide by forty two inches high.

Ostian Sea, (bottom, left) a mosaic suitable for use as table top or wall art was also nature inspired. This pictoral lapidary mosaic pays homage to the famous mosaicists of the ancient fishing port of Ostia, where floors were often decorated with stone liknesses of a day's catch. Dimensions (including frame): thirty three and three quarters inches

Benelux Homage (private collection, Massachusetts)