About Us

It's amazing how one event can change your life.

It happened in January 2002. Prior to our first visit to Venice, Lynne & Michael (our sister and brother-in-law) dragged out a decade-old video tape of their whirlwind visit to the fabled city. We watched attentively.

Two thirds through, Michael paused the tape. Sitting on a window sill of a house in Murano was a flowerpot decorated with all sorts of shards of glass, large and small - leftovers from one of the local glass foundries. Michael said passionately - as he characteristically does - that the mosaic pot was one of the coolest things he's ever seen.

We went to Venice, had a wonderful time, and kept an eye out for Michael's pot. We hoped to find one and bring it back, but we were not successful. It was January, the middle of winter. There weren't many pots sitting on window sills, and none of the galleries sold anything as pedestrian as a mosaic flower pot.

Three months later. Back to our daily routine. The trip was a memory - fond but distant. We happened to pass a stained glass studio tucked away on an alleyway in one of Boston's suburbs. It was late. The store was closed, but in the window was "Michael's pot" - a large terracotta pot decorated with broken ceramic tiles and pieces of glass.

We returned a few days later and inquired about the price of the pot. The owner told us that it was created by a student enrolled in one of his mosaic classes and was not for sale.

Not to be stopped, we decided that if we couldn't buy the pot, we would learn how to make one. So we enrolled in the class and began our journey into the world of mosaics and our lives have never been the same.

Our passion for mosaics has provided us with a way to express ourselves artistically and to create some interesting and beautiful objects.

We thank whoever it was in Murano that put a flowerpot on a windowsill that day our sister and brother-in-law visited the island. That one event changed our lives.

Bill Buckingham & Michael Welch