Gerry is a mosaic artist. Specializing in natural stone, he uses both traditional and contemporary methods of construction. A main source of delight for Gerry are the seemingly contradictory possibilities present in the stone medium - drawing out curves from square pieces of stone (tesserae), creating shades and contour from solid blocks of colour, creating softness from the hardest of all media. It was in his childhood on the Canadian Shield of Manitoba that Gerry experienced the sumptuous curves, the pillow-soft forms, and the enduring nature of stone. Each spring while the dock would be smashed and twisted by the ice, the granite would remain, steadfast and true. Stone is of the earth, it is the natural product of aeons of squeezing and contorting and cooking. Once in the studio it enters another stage where it is juxtaposed, however improbably, with other stone from around the world to recall the artist’s vision. Gerry explored many media while at the University of Manitoba and at Emily Carr College of Art and Design, but has always returned to stone. While there are few mosaic artists in Canada, there are even fewer who use stone. Gerry believes that art embodied in mosaics can be a marriage of beauty and functionality. The applications of mosaics are as varied and complex as our lives are today. Mosaics are art for living - for eating from, for walking on, for surrounding our everyday life. They are unique and they will endure.