Custom Mosaics for Residential, Business and Outdoors
About the Mosaicist
Anne Krum has had a life-long love of ceramic tiles and has collected them for years. Finding
a way to use these beautiful pieces of art has always been a wish. An extended stay in Europe and visits to North Africa showed
her the historical place ceramic, stone and glass mosaic tiles have played in art, architecture and religion. Especially in
Europe, mosaics are today as much a part of public and private art, as they have been since well before Greek, Roman and Byzantine civilizations.
Anne's love for the mosaicist's art grew with classes in mosaic processes in London and subsequent involvement
with other mosaicists via the Internet and through the Houston MOSAICO group. Anne was a career-long professional librarian
and has nurtured a library of technical works for glass artists of all kind at the Laurel Studios. She is a career-long
member of SAMA, the Society of American Mosaic Artists, http://www.americanmosaics.org/
Anne's specialty is with large mosaics for pools. Materials she works with are glass mosaic tiles, softly hued
porcelain ceramic tiles, beath-taking stained glass, mirror tiles, stones, shells, broken china, and other artefacts.
The Mosaic Process
1. Creating the “cartoon” or drawing
of the mosaic and choosing colors and tiles.
2. Choosing the appropriate surface (substrate) on which the mosaic is to be done,
taking into account whether the mosaic is to be indoors or outdoors, hung as a work of art or inset into a wall, floor
or piece of furniture 3. Preparing the “substrate” – be it wood, Hardi backerboard/Wediboard,
fiberglass mesh, etc. 4. Adhering the mosaic pieces
5. Grouting the mosaic if is free-standing. 6. Installing the mosaic if
it is part of an architectural element like floor, wall, column, or pool. 7. Grouting the finished mosaic in its
new location. 8. Sealing the mosaic.
