The beginning of a journey

I first fell in love with tile while painting a mural for a Mediterranean restaurant in the late 90's when I was about 24 years old. Here's a picture of that mural...

As I was researching the decorative elements, I looked in a book of tiles from around the world. I saw not only the Moroccan tile designs I was after, but also Portuguese tile!!

The variety of application and overall mural-like design amazed me.

 Not only was I impressed and inspired, I said to myself... "I can do that!"

So, I finished the mural and dedicated the next several years to learning how to paint with ceramic glazes.

(a 4x4 inch tile I painted with glazes and fired in the kiln)