Pastiche Gardens

Finished with a Bang!

Finished! A little section of wall completed with a big bang! This mosaic firework is made from bottlecaps, can tabs, wristwatches, buttons, beads, and a pair of big lobster sunglasses. It’s the kinds of things we keep without knowing why. Now they’re part of something joyful, permanent, and just a little bit loud. It’s the […]

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Process

Bedazzled Bob

Burbank, CA | 2023 Southern California’s iconic burger server got glammed up with 340,000 rhinestones applied one-by-one. Bob stands five feet tall and has made appearances at the classic car show in Burbank’s original Bob’s Big Boy location. Bob is available for sale! Contact Renee for more information!

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Projects

Bush-Gatton Home

Carbondale, IL | 2022 In a rural farmhouse, Renee completed a kitchen backsplash made up of tile, ceramic, and cherished memories of the client’s family. Completed in record time over a holiday weekend, it represents the personal touch of Renee’s largest works, rendered in loving detail that will last for generations.

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Projects

Jeremy’s Magical Mystery Car

Pacoima, CA | 2020 A 1998 Toyota Corolla became the canvas: blanketed in tiles, buttons, sunglasses, chess pieces, mannequin forms, and images of car culture in sunny southern California. The car’s weight was more than doubled by the artistic improvements, resulting in the most unique example of history’s most popular car.

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Projects

Music Junction

Burbank, CA | 2017 A motif from “Three Little Birds” by Bob Marley and the Wailers floats through a kaleidoscope of colored tile, charms, and beadwork. All this is placed on Renee’s first fully portable mosaic piece, 8 feet by 4 feet. Music students who pass through the school’s halls are inspired by this synesthetic

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Color Lounge

Burbank, CA | 2016 10 weekends, two carload of materials, four bins of styling supplies, and 14 tubes of industrial-strength adhesive combined to create a beautifully vivid entrance to this Burbank hair salon. Accessible to the public at 113 N. Naomi St., Burbank, CA 91505

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VCT Wall

North Hollywood, CA | 2014 8,750 pennies gleam in the afternoon sun on this 27-foot wide mosaic in the center of a loving community. Donations of materials during its construction included toy trains, old keys, grandma’s silverware, a musician’s first guitar, trinkets, keepsakes, and memorabilia. An Angel of Los Angeles, created by the community that

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