Moon Jellies creator Jacqueline Bizzotto.
Moon Jellies creator Jacqueline Bizzotto.
The other Fine Art winner, You Shape the World Around You by Heather Green, evokes meditative practice.
The winners for Pattern included Zachary Bowen’s Norris, which weaves concentric and geometric motifs.
Bowen's rendering of the Norris design.
Canna, by Jessica Battista, also won in the Pattern category. Her composition illustrates the intricate veining in canna lily leaves.
Battista's rendering of her Canna design.
A winner in the Fine Art category, Moon Jellies by Jacquelyn Bizzotto was inspired by the Chesapeake Bay.
Nestled in Exmore on Virginia’s Eastern Shore peninsula, New Ravenna designs and fabricates lavish, handcrafted mosaics. In 2022, the company celebrated its 30th anniversary with a mosaic design competition featuring entries submitted in two categories: Fine Art and Pattern.
“The breadth of imagination and talent was astounding,” notes New Ravenna creative director Cean Irminger, commenting on the submissions. “Winners were selected for the beauty of their original artwork and the challenge of each piece’s mosaic realization.”
Four winning designs, announced in February, have joined the company’s catalog as Pinnacle, a new collection. Each motif is fashioned by hand out of brass, jewel glass and honed, polished and tumbled stone, using hand-cutting and waterjet techniques. The designers will receive a commission for each made-to-measure mosaic produced. newravenna.com