Nuance. Simplicity. And Illumination.

Talking, and listening, to students.

Over the years, I have matured into a better teacher.

I have learned along with my students. Sometimes the learning I learn is about actual mosaic skills. But much of the time, I find that learning is about paying attention to what I am already doing and then taking the careful time to find the right words to explain it. To simplify it in ways that create the aha moments, for both of us.

I do, then I think, then I teach.

There is good reason that I subtitle so many of my teaching experiences with the word INTUITIVE. It’s the way I operate. Sometimes what happens under the hammer and the torch is just as mysterious to me as it is to you.

Pulling filati on the porch.

I need to figure it out so I can help you figure it out.

Once a year, I film a carefully curated online course out in Santa Barbara, California at Mosaic Arts Online. It’s no exaggeration to admit that I spend much of the year talking to you, the student, before I ever get in front of the camera.

I am talking to you right n…