Portfolio

A curated selection of Laura Robbins’ mosaics, showcasing her distinctive use of texture, color, and organic form across fine art, commissions, and public installations.

Personal Works

Finding peace, connection and inspiration in her studio, Laura plays with imagery of the moment. These pieces may take days, weeks, months, or years and are companions on her journey.,

Healing Dreams

Using a mosaic as an illustration, Laura retells and reimagines her childhood stories through a lens of personal wisdom. Dreams, insights, and teachings take on a storybook form, honoring mystery, the unknown cosmos, nature, and heart. Pieces of uniquely formed clay join with cut, fused, and slumped glass to create the mosaic images. The series was displayed at Wild Hearts Gallery, Placitas, NM, during the month of October 2025.

This is a time to know that we do not know.  It’s a time to remember our stories, collective and personal. It’s a time to heal as well as forgive ourselves and others. Let’s honor the great mysteries of which we are all a part!

  • All The Metaphors Sailed on Gifted Dreams 11” h x 13.75” w x 5” d $500
  • Water Cosmos Dream 24.5” h x 22.5” w x approx 2”d $600
  • All The Stories Sailed on Gifted Dreams 24” h x 18” w x 1.5”d $600
    All The Stories Sailed on Gifted Dreams 24” h x 18” w x 1.5”d $600
  • Away on Gifted Dreams 24” h x 18” w x approx, 4.5”d $600
  • Blue Moon 25”h x 18” w x 1.5 “d $650
  • The Conversation 56” h x 32” w x 2.5” d $4,000
  • The Stories Remember 21”h x 20” w x 2.25 d
  • For Piper 4” h x 23.25”w x 2,5 “ d $2200
  • Sailing Into Silence 17”h x 15” w x approx. 1.75 d $500

    • Tools and Found Objects

    Old tools and found objects have a beauty of their own. No longer functional or perhaps discarded, human made or nature’s gift, Laura appreciates the forms which inspire the integration of mosaic design.

    • Abstracts and designs

    • Cast Glass

    The simple elegance of cast glass, so different from the details of intricate mosaic work, has been briefly visited. Laura will spend more time with this process, which allows for glass sculpture and the translation of clay form into glass.

    • Animals

    • We Are Water

    Water imagery is a recurrent exploration. Living in the high desert, Laura appreciates and honors this source of life. Rain, aquifers, snow melt, streams, and rivers allow all to live in the high desert home of New Mexico. During the last ten years, she has also spent time in Hawaii, which feels like a second home. The vastness of the ocean humbles her, and the life of the reef is a never-ending joy and wonder. 

    • Gray Water Kitchen

    Gray Water Kitchen is about “home”-a metaphor that connects “inside” with “outside”. We can joyously share ourselves and appreciate our miraculous planet earth. Water is our most precious resource. Where possible, we do well to repurpose recycled water for our neighboring plants and animals ~ especially here in the high desert of the southwest! Even in city and suburbs, we could direct water used by washing machines and showers to garden beds and trees.

    Most kitchens are the center of a home ~ a place for gathering and nurturance. May we include nature as family ~ taking from the abundance offered and also giving back!

    Commissions

    Since 2002, Laura has completed numerous pieces for private homes and businesses, both within and outside. Below, you will find images from various commissions: The Albuquerque Zoo and Botanical Gardens, The Range Cafes, private homes, and businesses.

  • Norman, Oklahoma Arts Council | Lion’s Park
  • Norman, Oklahoma Arts Council | Lion’s Park
  • Norman, Oklahoma Arts Council | Lion’s Park
  • Albuquerque Botanic Gardens | Dragonfly Sanctuary | Detail
  • Norman, Oklahoma Arts Council | Lion’s Park
  • Detail of living room mural | Private Home
  • Albuquerque Private Home Outdoor Fireplace
  • Globalquerque Music Festival Poster
  • Placitas, NM Home
  • Albuquerque Zoo Wall | Detail
  • Guinea Hens Albuquerque Private Home
  • Detail of 50′ Kitchen Backsplash | Private Home, Albuquerque
  • Albuquerque Zoo Wall | Detail
  • Albuquerque Zoo | Blue Iguana | Detail
  • The Range Cafe, Bernalillo | Fireplace
  • Taos B&B Fireplace

    • Art In Public Spaces

    Laura has created mosaic pieces for the Albuquerque Bio Park and other businesses and public venues. Some of the murals are dedicated to honor volunteers or donors honoring loved ones. 

    Gray Water Kitchen found its home at the Albuquerque Open Space Visitor Center, and Everything Exists in Relationship at UNM Comprehensive Care Center.

    Laura has facilitated community involvement, creating murals in Placitas, New Mexico, and Norman, Oklahoma.

    Placitas Community Mural

    Protect Our Wildlife Corridors

    Laura co-facilitated the seventy foot long Placitas Community mosaic mural, Protect Our Wildlife Corridors, a project of Pathways, Wildlife Corridors of NM. The collaborative endeavor took approximately four years to complete. Over one hundred neighbors, including school children, participated. Each panel (approximately 8’w x 6’h) depicts a local ecosystem.