My experience in artistic mediums allow me to capture an authentic likeness of my subjects in mosaic form. The unique qualities of mosaic design render portraits that are at once contemporary and historically allusive.

While my prior work tended toward the quite abstract, my most recent works represent a return to the figurative. I find the elemental nature of the process and the materials inspiring as I recreate the warmth, sparkle and solidity of figures.

I prefer bold, strong color schemes and I use refective surfaces to lend my pieces a sense of movement. The nature of my work is both graphic as well as transcendent. The economy of the forms presented is quite intentional and allows the materials and sitters to reveal their most essential qualities and uniqueness of character.

I work in natural materials (marble, glass, smalti, minerals, recycled materials, found objects and more) using the tesserae, andamento and interstices to create mosaics that are, all at once, familiar and unreal. The work is difficult: it is a struggle to get every piece right while managing and understanding its relationship to the next piece and the one placed before, all the time considering the whole work.

Creating with a broad range of materials raises the complexity of the projects beyond just cutting a piece to fit. The limitless choices in scale, texture, reflectivity, spacing and more, keep my mind constantly working on many different levels at the same time. It is engrossing, consuming, challenging and difficult and I wouldn't do anything else.

- Bill Clark (2008)