Pastiche Gardens

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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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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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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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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Zen Garden

Van Nuys, CA | 2011 In the backyard of a 100-year-old house, the Zen Garden began as a quiet retreat from the outside world. Over its yearlong construction, it became the focal point for the house’s energy: circuit boards, credit cards, skeleton keys, marbles, brass pipes, driftwood, and even celluloid film found a home among

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