Mosaics & Painted Murals
Water in the desert mosaic~
Glass and stone comprise the water flowing over and down an adobe garden wall on a large property in Tucson, AZ. The client initially asked for a painted waterfall, but when I saw the space, I proposed this.
Fluorite rocks and glittering Italian tranparenti glass cemented to the wall are continued into the slate rock stream to catch teh changing light in this secluded garden wall.
I chose a glass palette of champagne, lichen, sea foam and sky blues shadowed by purple wine grapes, layered and mixed with fluorite rocks and foil-backed glass highlights.
Raven Brings the Light
Raven Brings the Light mosaic, designed and fabricated by Beth Surdut.
Size: 50" x 105"
private residence, Los Alamos, NM
In creation stories, the world was in darkness before Raven stole the source from either an animal or human, depending on the tale, then hung the moon and stars and sun in the sky.
Raven primarliy consists of tiny square glass Turkish tiles placed striated- side up to catch the light. Wings and tail are Italian glass transparenti. I cut and ground the claw forms, using a blown glass with gold in it to form the eye.
Raven Brings the Light-- mosaic moon detail-- moon glass is backed with copper, silver, and gold. The sky is primarily rectangular Italian transparenti in multiple shades of blue and purple with foiled highlights to form starlight over mountains of square Italian glass tiles and natural flurorite rocks in pale green and yellow.
Stained Glass
The Joys of St. Bart's skylight, Washington, DC. Lush island foliage and two birds floating in the beauty of the island waters.
Making an entrance! I designed 12 windows for this Victorian-style home in Great falls, VA, including the front door and sidelights with faceted glass jewels edged with beveled glass.
La Terazza de Marti, tropcal transom with hibiscus varieties, purple thunbergia, orchids,and palms. Originally created for the space over double French doors of the pool house of a boutique hotel in Key West, Florida.
Mind Gardens, abstract design inspired by sea forms and brain coral, free-hanging in an oak frame. I used extraordinary blood- red and moss green glass from France--red fused to clear fused to green changes color with bright backlight featuring the red, low light favoring green. Included is semi-antique from Germany, and specialty glasses from the USA.
Southern Memory, purple Morning Glory flowers twine around woody branches illuminated by wispy clouds in a blue sky in Great Falls, Virginia
Simplicity and movement combine in this singlular rose stained glass transom in Washington, DC.. Choosing each piece and section of striated colors elevates this elegant window.
Roadie
This wild #roadrunner walked up to me when I sang to him in October 2023 and has been visiting ever since. Companionable and curious, Roadie comes to my studio door and waits for me to sit outside with him, sometimes for hours. As of fall 2025, I am singing to Roadie on my patio in the Sky Islands.
That should tell you a lot about me.
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