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2010. 12 inches square. Ceramic tile, mixed glass and metallic media, and Charles's guitar strings on wood.

Commissioned by a classical guitarist. The guitar grew flowers and the flowers made music. (The guitar strings are wrapped into the spiral.) (Photo by Anne Chadwick Williams)

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2010. 20 inches diamter round, ceramic tile and dishes on wood.

The dragonfly wings dropped out of the plate I was breaking while demonstrating my technique in a class I was teaching, and they took flight in this piece. (Photo by Anne Chadwick Williams)

Donated to Spirit in the Arts

2009. 16 x 16, Stained glass and glass media on concrete board.

One of the rare all-glass mosaics I've made to date, and one of the most difficult I've ever grouted, as the roses are three-dimensional. This mosaic is best displayed in an easel as a table-top piece. (Photo by Anne Chadwick Williams)

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2009. 12 x 12 , Stained glass, china, ceramic tile and glass globs on concrete board.

This piece is an example of how breaking up plates for one piece ends up starting a new piece, and even another, so that I sometimes have three or four pieces going at once on my worktable. (Photo by Nora Devane)

Donated to Canadian Helen Keller Centre

2009. 12 x 12, Stained glass, glass globs, costume jewelry and miscellaneous hardware on concrete board.

Andy let me have a few really cool hardware pieces from his warehouse, that he later told me were electrical fittings. I just wanted to see what I could do with these, along with a bunch of nails, nuts, bolts and screws. (Photo by Nora Devane)

Donated to Canadian Helen Keller Centre

2009. 16 x 22 (12 x 18 mosaic inside of 2" frame), China, glass rods, glass globs and stained glass on wood.

The butterfly morphed out of pieces of china from Joyce's mother and grandmother. (Photo by Nora Devane)

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2009. 16 x 16, Ceramic tile, ceramic dishes, glass globs and brass on concrete board.

My signature piece. It’s appropriate that broken red chili peppers went into it! (Photo by Nora Devane)

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2009. 12 x 12, Ceramic dish, stained glass, costume jewelry and mixed glass on concrete board.

When the face went in and the butterfly flew over her, I knew the name of this piece. (Photo by Nora Devane)

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2009. 20 x 14 inches. Ceramic tile, pottery, stained glass and glass globs on wood.

I didn't mean to break Sandra's Lady of the Lilies statue, but now the Lady moves with more grace in the mosaic. (Photo by Anne Chadwick Williams)

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2009. 14 x 20 inches. Mixed pottery and china, ceramic tile, and miscellaneous glass and metallic media on wood.

The commemorative plate commemorated too much pain, so Sandra asked for "something transformational." (Photo by Anne Chadwick Williams)

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2009. 18 x 24 inches. Ceramic and glass tile, and glass globs on wood.

Laurel Burch is one of my favorite artists, for her bold and vivacious colors and clean yet whimsical design. This piece is inspired by a design on one of my Laurel Burch coffee mugs. (Photo by Anne Chadwick Williams)

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2009. 16 inches square. Ceramic tile, pottery, mixed glass media on wood.

This one found a resting spot on my wall and there she stays. (Photo by Anne Chadwick Williams)

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2009. 16 inches square. Metallic dragonflies with mixed glass and pottery media on wood.

Sometimes you just have to put your head down and one foot in front of the other, foot by foot, to get through the day. This mosaic was like that, and in the end, it was good to find the slough was worth slogging through. (Photo by Anne Chadwick Williams)

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2008. 16 x 16, Porcelain china, stained glass and glass globs on concrete board.

The flowers grew out of Joyce's broken china, and china from her mother and grandmother, too. (Photo by Jim Thompson)

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Green Butterfly

2008. China and glass on wood. 24”w x 18”h

The plates needed a butterfly in their pastel borders, so they made one.
(Photo by Nora Devane)

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2006. Porcelain and glass on wood. 16” x 16”

The butterflies flew into this piece from a porcelain “Vase of One Hundred Butterflies,” another one of Andy’s serendipitous finds at one of his job sites. It was such a gorgeous vase I had to let it live for a few years before it was time for this piece. (Photo by Anne Chadwick Williams)

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2005. 16 inches square, Ceramic tile, pottery, mirrors and glass on wood.

The expression on her face changes. (Photo by Nora Devane)

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2005. Approx. 13 x 16 inches. Glass globs and ceramic tile on wood.

This was Andy's Valentine's Day present. (Photo by Anne Chadwick Williams)

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Jungle Jewels

2005. 16 inches square. Mixed glass and ceramic media on wood.

When a vase full of exotic glass flowers fell over and left me with a bunch of broken flowers, I knew just what to do with them. (Photo by Anne Chadwick Williams)

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2005. 24" diameter round. Mixed ceramic and glass media.

A commissioned piece that I would have liked to have kept for myself. (Photo by Anne Chadwick Williams)

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2004. 24 inches square, Ceramic tile and glass on wood.

This piece got me through a long, dark winter. The sun is so big because I needed it to be. (Photo by Nora Devane)

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2003. 20 x 14 inches, Ceramic tile, costume jewelry, brass and china on Wonderboard.

Custom made for fellow RPer and chatroom friend, with tile from her home remodel. (Photo by Anne Chadwick Williams)

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2003. 20 x 14 inches, Porcelain china, ceramic tile, mixed glass and polished agate stones on Wonderboard.

One of my personal favorites. I wasn’t happy when I started it but when I finished, I had taken it to the stars. (Photo by Michael Springer)

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2003. 24 inches square. Broken ceramic cookie jar and glass media on plywood.

One of my weirder pieces, but it also sold for the most money. So far. (Photo by Anne Chadwick Williams)

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2002. 24-inch diameter round. Ceramic tile, pottery, mixed glass media and polished stones on Wonderboard.

Andy brought home a tacky scallop shell shaped periwinkle pottery vase he'd found. “Isn’t this a neat vase?” “Yah, it is!” I happily responded, and the next morning I was out on my patio, whacking it with a hammer into mosaic pieces. Within a couple days the vase mosaic pieces had sprouted wondrous weird flowers, and when I showed them to Andy, he said, “Wow, that looks really nea--- HEY!! That’s my vase in there!!!” (Photo by Anne Chadwick Williams)

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2002. Porcelain china, ceramic tile and mixed glass media on plywood.

“Oh, it looks like Grandma’s peaceful garden!” a friend commented about this garden full of pieces of fine china and tiles that Andy found abandoned at real estate repair job sites. The big dinner plate was found just like that: bottom broken out but rim intact. (Photo by Anne Chadwick Williams)

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2001. 36 inch diameter round. Ceramic tile and mixed glass media on Wonderboard.

My largest piece, serving as my coffee table top in my family room. It grew out of an image I had of myself as a tree, in all its seasons and stages of life from creation, conception and fruition through all the other life phases, with each stage and cycle spinning like a star. All of the tiles are “found” wall, countertop and floor tiles from construction and remodeling jobs, or leftovers and rejects from a ceramic arts studio. They were cut into small pieces on a wet saw, and then chipped and shaped into smaller pieces by hand with a tile nipper. (Photo by Michael Springer)

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September, 2001. 12 inches square. Mixed glass media and seashells on plywood.

After four days of viewing continuous television coverage of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City, I turned off the television. Two days later, this emerged. (Photo by Anne Chadwick Williams)

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2001. 12 inches square. Ceramic tile and glass media on plywood.

Gift to my friend Patty, who, like me, loves the Laurens Van Der Post story of Xhabbo, the Bushman who feels the tapping in his heart. (Photo by Michael Springer)

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April, 2001. 12 inches square. Ceramic tile, porcelain china, and mixed glass media on plywood.

We may choose to be a chipped plate, or we may allow ourselves to be completely reborn, in much the way a phoenix bursts into flame and arises anew from the ashes. Even though we may not even remotely resemble what we were before, as a chipped plate might more resemble the original unbroken plate, the new star that arises out of the ashes is more true to our real selves. (Photo by Michael Springer)

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2000. 12 inches square. Ceramic tile, mirror, and glass on wood.

This piece was my reminder that no matter how broken I feel when I look at myself in the mirror, my broken places and scars are where I find my strength when I reach for the healing. Presented to Megan McHugh, webmeister of this site, who, like me, has Usher syndrome. When she decided to get a cochlear implant so that she could rely on her hearing more after her RP reached an advanced stage, she had to change her whole way of looking at herself and how she interacted with the rest of the world. (Photo by Anne Chadwick Williams)

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1999. 21 inches diameter, ceramic tile and glass on plywood.

This was the heart I was reaching for when I started Scar Heart, and I began this one right after I finished that one. But it was another year before I was able to finish this one, and I think that had something to do with the depth of mind and spirit my healing path was taking me. Be careful what you pray for: chances are that you will get it. (Photo by Anne Chadwick
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1998. 21 inches diameter, ceramic tile and glass on wood.

An early piece that was key to my healing after brain tumor surgery. I started out to make a soothing healing piece, but when I finished grouting it, I burst into tears because it seemed so bloody and raw. It’s grown on me over the years and I think I still have something to learn from it. (Photo by Anne Chadwick Williams)

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1998. 19 x 22 inches, ceramic tile and glass on Wonderboard.

One of my very early pieces that I started making after the brain tumor surgery in October, 1997. This piece grew out of my struggle to restructure my life that had been totally turned upside down and inside out. It was also a lesson in the arts of serendipity and interdependence. I was having trouble explaining to my husband Andy just how I wanted the tiles cut, which meant that he wasn’t cutting them on the wet saw the way I thought I wanted them to come out. But I found I could still make them work, and moreover, they worked better than I planned. (Photo by Anne Chadwick Williams)

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1973. 24 inches square. Ceramic and glass tile on wood.

My first mosaic ever, made when I was 18 years old for a college art class. Except for one other mosaic after this that was my parents' patio coffee table (it eventually was thrown away, I guess; I don't know what became of it), I didn't make any other mosaics until after my brain tumor surgery in 1997. Then, I took Black Tree back from my parents, repaired and regrouted it, and have kept it ever since. Once in a while Mom tries to get me to send it back to her, but I'm keeping it safe. (And yep, of course, I earned an "A" for the class.) (Photo by Anne Chadwick Willliams)

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