Artist’s Statement

To mosaic is to make order from chaos. In some ways I feel my life is a mosaic itself … ORDER and CHAOS…one never existing without the other…but always creating BEAUTY in the end. Perhaps that is why I find myself so dazzled by mosaics. There is something about the process of gathering and assembling all the different materials, then piecing them together piece by piece that is somehow symbolic of how we live our lives in general. Very few things just come together instantly. Instead the process is one of developing an idea or plan and then putting it together one piece at a time, like building a house or completing a degree or following a recipe and even the journey of life itself. We are born, we live, we learn, we experience, we give, we receive, we take and then we die. Everything has a process and that is what my art is all about. My art like my life is constantly evolving piece by piece.

Contact Information:

Cliff Thorbes
Ph: 604-684-0584
Email: piecebypiece@shaw.ca
Website: www.piecebypiece.ca

"Miami Table"

completed 2006, mixed media (mosaic), steel and glass, 30"height and 18"diameter

"Emeral Bench"

completed 2006, mixed media (mosaic), wood and glass, 4' length, 14" height and 12" width

"Miami Table Detail"

completed 2006, mixed media (mosaic), steel and glass, 30"height and 18"diameter