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Fireplace
I Made all the tiles for this fireplace, the art tiles and the field tiles. It looks awesome! The size of the field tiles are 2″x 2″, 2″x 4″, 4″x 4″, 4″x 6″, 6″x 6″, and 4″x 8″. There are … Continue reading
Posted in Tile Installations
Tagged Alaska, art, arts and crafts, Clay, fireplace, Hand made, tile
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Three New Four-Inch Tiles
This is one of several new designs for this summer season. I like the eyes of the otter, so the new seal and fox designs might be reworked to have similar eyes. The x-ray style, common among the Alaskan Coastal … Continue reading
Four of Fox Card Tile
This tile is one of three card tiles made for an upcoming May show at the Anchorage Humanities Forum. There will also be about twenty 12″ x 12″ tiles, every 12″ tile that I have designed and made, in the … Continue reading
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Tagged aboriginal, Alaska, Alaska tile, arctic fox, art tile, collagraph, tile
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Tile Backing for Wood Stove
This is the tile wall behind a wood stove that an acquaintance installed in his house. I also made the field tiles surrounding the art tiles. It will be featured in the next quarterly issue of Alaska Home magazine. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Alaska, Anchorage, art tile, glacier clay, Wood Stove
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Two-Inch Pendants
These are recent tests for a two-inch size pendant. None sold at the Colorado Indian Market last month, but I’ll see how they do this summer. If they didn’t have holes, they could be tiles. To be installed with tiles, … Continue reading
More Buttons and Pendants
These buttons are made out of clay from the Anchorage mud flats (Cook Inlet glacial clay), the same clay that is used in my tiles, and the images are from the stamps that I have created to decorate the back … Continue reading
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Tagged aboriginal, Alaska, Arctic, buttons, eskimo, Hand made, Inupiaq, object runway, salmon
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Portugese Camino
Walked the Portuguese Camino with my 85 year old Father and two younger sisters, Dorothy in the middle and Karen on the right. Dorothy has a PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford and Karen is a civil engineer with the … Continue reading
Plaster Mold Crab Tile
It’s been a busy 2015 so far! I went to two arts & crafts shows in Denver in January and March, and I recently went to Doylestown, Pennsylvania for the Moravian Tile Festival. I made a short trip up to … Continue reading
Posted in 6" Tile
Tagged Alaska tile, art tile, ceramic tile, Chicago Botanic Garden, crab, Moravian Tile Festival, Wells Street Gallery
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New Fisherman Plate
The old plate is in the upper left above and overlapped by the new plate that is being cut out of 300-lb cotton rag etching paper. The cut pieces that will be glued to a matte board are visible in … Continue reading
Posted in 6" Tile
Tagged Alaska, Alaska tile, art tile, ceramic tile, collagraph, salmon
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Sailorboy Pilot Bread
Six-inch Square, Sailorboy Pilot Bread Art Tile, $75 Originally made this design as one of the thirteen 12″ tiles for Nana Development Corporation, one of the many native alaskan owned businesses that are fairly common these days. I can’t tell … Continue reading
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