Tierra Tile

09/07/2026

Creating a porcupine mosaic out of natural stone.

09/02/2026

08/29/2026

The KRAKEN is alive!
Recent mosaic backsplash that my son helped me fabricate and install here in Homer Alaska.
It glows, but I’ll share more pics when it starts getting dark at a reasonable hour to photograph
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08/28/2026

Just finished up this birdbath mosaic. It consists of 13 local varieties of birds with 30 birds in all. I was going for live action with the birds while keeping symmetry in the branches.

03/06/2026

This is a preschool playground mosaic that was completed last fall in Anchorage AK. It consists of three separate mosaic murals installed throughout the playground on concrete benches. The mosaic is a blend of hand cut porcelain and traditional broken tile.

03/06/2026

I had the chance to make this little porcupine that is installed on a stair landing in my clients home. It is fabricated out of five different colors of granite and travertine. Their neighbor has a photo in their home of this porcupine and they wanted me to recreate it using stone.

02/02/2026

I am getting ready to install this porcupine mosaic. It was fabricated using five different colors of granite. I cut as thin of strips that I could before the stone just turned to sand, varying from 1/16"-1/8". It was like a game of dominoes and operation combined while setting these slivers of tile. I will pre-grout it with a brown epoxy grout before installation as the field tile grout will be a different color.

01/26/2026

These mosaics were made for a preschool playground in Anchorage Alaska. They sit on the face of three different concrete benches. This is a mixture of hand cut and traditional broken tile all fabricated and pre-mounted in my studio. The tile is DAL TILE's porcelain "Portfolio vivid" line. The concrete was prepped with Laticretes Hydroban crack isolation membrane. Mortar used was Laticrete 254 Platinum. Grouted with Laticrete Permacolor Select.

01/26/2026

My clients brought me a whole bunch of scraps from all the tile work that they had done in their home and asked if I could make them a compass rose. It was pre-mounted in my shop and shipped out for their tile contractor to install.